David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈

Curious as to what denomination persuaded Mr Yaxley-Lennon in detention to accept Christ as his personal redeemer, though I suspect it’ll be evangelical.

What? Is he King John's spin doctor?

In Nick Vincent’s epic edition of King Henry’s Acts and Letters, this is 3158. He dates it 1157 x 1166, with some scope to narrow it to May 1165 x March 1166, before the king decamped to France.

More of un chose Belgique I would say, as several others here suggest. Love the fritteries of Utrecht and Leuven.

King John’s foster family the Baillebiens got land in Gillingham Dorset from Henry II, not from John himself. John took his foster brother into his household, but sadly the kid died on campaign with him in Ireland. Somehow with John things always go to s**t

In different ways both are the end of all things

Liz even makes a good stab at identifying the author as Eustace de Boulogne, chancellor of Count William (IV) of Warenne. Can't be 100% certain, but it convinces me.

Oddly, what pisses me off are people who spell Llandaff as Llandaf for the sake of 'accuracy', even when they pronounce it with the double-F, and not as 'Llandav'

I'd agree with the striking observation that populism does not fit the description of a coherent ideology, that its roots are in resentment, in which case sociology has more to offer: it looks like a classic instance of a habitus collapsing under hysteresis: new norms provoking hostile reaction

The Guardian did not disappoint with its report of the Plaid Cyrmu (sic) victory in Caerphilly. In one thing constant ever Grauniad

12th century popes and Western kings wouldn’t expect ever to meet, which is why legates developed into such important figures and were expected to dress up in papal robes on their missions. Diplomatic cosplay. I don’t think French kings consorted with popes much either. Eugenius III in 1146 maybe.

I wonder that if Reform make inroads in he Welsh Senedd elections, they'll espouse a policy of sending the English back to Jutland and Saxony and reclaim Lloegr from the Saesneg. The Welsh of the 12th century thought it was a vote winner, so run it up the flagpole now Ms Lam has made lunacy normal

It does give Oberon a convincing context for sure ... though I can't visualise him getting down on the cymbals

I daren’t look at the price OUP will put on it

Wow. Memories of Grand Avenue.

It is entirely beautiful in real life, the Schatzkammer catalogue’s analysis favours it to have been a Cheapside goldsmith’s of the latter years of Edward III’s reign

Good use for that grand old building, civic Cardiff at its greatest. The first floor reference room was a place a working class teenager from Ely could explore the world of books and chart his way across intellectual horizons under its coffered ceiling via something as mundane as a card catalogue.

Called “scratting” in the East Riding and much bemoaned in Victorian school log books for taking kids out of class

The most amusing thing (of many) in their NYT dialogue was that each was clearly convinced in their sectarian way that the other was damned for all eternity, but were too polite to say it out loud

The screen in the adjacent Romanesque church has a secular origin and may be another type of fragment of the manor

And in the week when G-A-Y closed its doors. The old Soho club culture is dying its own natural death, without silly performative evangelicals claiming credit.

I do hope it closes off that historiographical cul de sac for good and all. It proved only that French historians could be brainwashed as easily as the British by grand narratives, in our case by Oxbridge constitutionalist history, still twitching

The recent VCH volume suggests from extant remains that the Gothic collegiate church was preceded by a major cruciform Romanesque church with stone vaults, the one presided over by the famous historian Roger of Howden as minster head, or ‘persona’ between c.1169 and 1202

My German is crap, but "Gefallt aus" was a phrase I was glad I understood on my last visit

I remember the damp black dust it deposited on the fields of Mountain Ash comp down the valley

F**k Calvinism

Might be makeshift staithes, set in banks of tidal rivers to deflect the ebb rip from undermining the sea bank. A medieval strategy in Yorkshire

Already sold out. They need a bigger venue dammit

Fantastic. My town. I will be there.

Ah Senate House. Home of the Institute of Historical Research. Best history library in the UK.