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Times and Sunday Times best-selling author Medieval Historian Mother of Doggos SCEPTRED ISLE: A NEW HISTORY OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY OUT MAY 2025 (Hutchinson Heinemann, Penguin Random House)
Happy Publication Day to me! 🎉😱🥹🧿
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History is officially out!
It’s a history of the region through objects found in an ancient museum in Princess Ennigaldi-Nanna’s palace, and I hope you all like it 💛 lnk.to/BetweenTwoRi...
Thank you!
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Selfie of a smiling woman holding a shiny book entitled Between Two Rivers. The bottom half of the book cover is slightly obscured by her hand. She wears a dark grey sweatshirt
advance copies have arrived and if it looks like i’m trying to hug it, that’s because i am 🥹
03.02.2025 14:24 — 👍 2390 🔁 128 💬 109 📌 19This looks super!
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Special event Medieval Historians in Conversation on 5 April 2025 with Dr Caroline Burt & Richard Partington, Dan Jones, Helen Castor and Helen Carr.
Book now: Medieval Historians in Conversation
Caroline Burt & Richard Partington (@camhistory.bsky.social) with authors Dan Jones, Helen Castor & @helencarr.bsky.social, on recent books, writing history & all things medieval.
📅 5 April
🕒4 - 5:30pm
🏢 Mill Lane Site, Pembroke College
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New on The Writer’s Bookshelf: eight questions about writers, books and reading with medieval historian @helencarr.bsky.social. mathewlyons/p/the-writers-bookshelf-helen-carr?r=210m2m&utm_medium=ios
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Join us in Cambridge in April, the Magnificent Five! Booking soon essential as the event will be a sell out.
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Good morning, friends! My first paid subscriber post is up and it is a deep, personal dive into my reasons for being a historian. I will be announcing my first monthly lecture for subscribers today so please consider joining up.
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Lots! The border is a big focus
06.02.2025 08:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I just finished reading @helencarr.bsky.social 's book on John of Gaunt -- a favorite historical character of mine. Thank you for this excellent book! I greatly enjoyed it.
06.02.2025 01:47 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0En route to Edinburgh to meet wonderful Scottish booksellers and talk about why Scotland is such a prominent part of my new book, Sceptred Isle.
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Brand new post up on Substack! All free for now but I am working on some content for paid subscribers, including a monthly seminar and a writers hour when I will be available to help you with your ideas.
Do check out my page and consider subscribing
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Thank you!!
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This beauty has arrived safely.
I can’t wait to dive into it.
@helencarr.bsky.social you are an inspiration!
Another example of how the study of history illuminates our lives and helps us navigate the present.
Brilliant piece by @helencarr.bsky.social
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I have joined Substack! This will be my crucible going forward so please do follow me here for medieval musings.
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My takeaway from this is that we have failed to teach history properly and we’ve failed to impress upon young people what the realities of authoritarian governance are for ordinary people. We’ve failed to convey that history is absolutely relevant to now.
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"A thrilling narrative account of a century of revolution, shifting power and great change."
Today's forthcoming-book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @helencarr.bsky.social!
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Book: Sceptred Isle: a new history of the fourteenth century by Helen Carr
Back of book. Details here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/447718/sceptred-isle-by-carr-helen/9781529151657
Very excited to receive my advance copy of @helencarr.bsky.social's forthcoming "Sceptred Isle"! It's out on 29 May.
25.01.2025 15:23 — 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Thank you so much! I hope you enjoy it
21.01.2025 21:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0BIG NEWS, BIG REVEAL!
One of the Sunday Times top 40 books of 2025, out May 29 but you can pre-order now! I cannot wait to share this book with you all
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A great read on a cool January afternoon.
So much to look forward to in 2025!
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Wild stories of medieval women | @helencarr.bsky.social
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She is your daughter, Dan. This is unsurprising and also, cool.
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Qween Marina speaks
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Rebecca’s courses are always fantastic and I highly recommend this one.
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Lindisfarne Castle through the abbey window.
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