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How 'English' is Saint George?
The real history of England's patron saint
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Apr 23
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Eostre: Pagan fertility goddess or complete fabrication?
Special Easter edition
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Apr 19
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Godgifu: The Bare Truth Behind the Lady Godiva Legend
A medieval landowner turned sex symbol
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Apr 3
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March 2025
Allen Lane and Harper sign my debut book, 'Monarchia: A New History of the English Royal Dynasties, Through the Queens Who Built Them'
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Mar 27
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Allen Lane and Harper sign my debut book, 'Monarchia: A New History of the English Royal Dynasties, Through the Queens Who Built Them'
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January 2025
The Oakington Women: A matriarchal medieval society
A collection of extraordinary female burials in a sixth-century cemetery in Cambridge
Jan 29
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Breguswith: Bede's story of Portents and Pendants
What we know about the life of Abbess Hild's mother
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Jan 21
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December 2024
Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers that Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe - Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry
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Dec 30, 2024
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Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers that Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe - Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry
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The Christmas Story in Early Medieval English Art
Looking at Nativity and Epiphany
Dec 23, 2024
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The Christmas Story in Early Medieval English Art
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November 2024
Gunhild: A Victim of Medieval Ethnic Cleansing?
Exploring the 1002 St Brice's Day Massacre of the Danes
Nov 13, 2024
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Dr Florence H R Scott
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Need distraction today? Read my thesis!
My PhD has been published open-access online
Nov 6, 2024
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Need distraction today? Read my thesis!
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October 2024
On the eve of Blotmonath, the month of animal sacrifice
Halloween special 2024
Oct 31, 2024
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Two medievalists in Nazi Germany
The very different fates of Carl Erdmann and Percy Ernst Schramm
Oct 17, 2024
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Two medievalists in Nazi Germany
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