There are also a few FREE tickets available for this celebration of all things Lord Byron on Weds 17 April 👀🤩

Just get in touch with the lovely Bee Rowlatt, who can hook you up - pls share!

Full lineup here: …hlibraryculturalevents.seetickets.com/event/the-byro…

The non-fiction charts at Manchester Airport are a depressing sight. 4 women, out of 41 books. (And pretty limited diversity generally.)

Join charlie higson & a star-studded team of experts to tackle one of history’s biggest questions: just how do you survive an early modern court?
▪️ 11am, Sat 13 April
▪️ @BritishLibrary & Online
▪️ Individual tickets (£10/£5): histfest.org/how-to-survive…… #HistFest2024

In happier news

It is officially publication day for the amazing Lady Anne Percy 👑🎉🥂✨️

#EpistolaryCulture
#WomensWriting
#NetworkAnalysis
#EarlyModernEurope
#ommunitiesofexile
#ElizabethanCatholicism
#AngloScotsNetworks

Catholic Record Society
Boydell & Brewer

One of my favourite ever paintings .

I LOVE KP

Me! Me! I do! Bane of my life. Sometimes genuinely wish I’d never done a history degree because I get so caught up in endnote checking i lose the narrative threat entirely!

Great argument for footnotes here - P.M. Kendall admitted in an endnote that the market cross scene was his invention. But who ever scans endnotes for extra detail? So the market cross scene has become iconic.

I love this. This is how we restore lost voices to the record in nonfiction and in film based on historical events.
Reintegrating these voices involves interpretation, but educated and creative interpretation. Brava, Monica Beletsky

Eggman.

[Le livre de Lancelot du Lac (etc), Northern France, c1275-1300]

Competition!!

We have two tickets to giveaway to each of the following #HistFest2024 events!

To enter, simply subscribe to All Things History (see link) and post a comment.

Winners announced on Tuesday 2 April. Good luck! histfest.substack.com/p/just-over-tw…

The ‘British Right’s Favourite Sex Offender’ Helen Lewis. Lisa Hilton has waived her anonymity to courageously tell how columnist Taki tried to rape her. He was found guilty of attempted rape in Oct 2023. As The Guardian reported (below), it was a ‘violent assault’. A horrific story

Witchcraft! Treason! Other cool stuff! Want to learn how to use Early Modern Common Law records for research? This day workshop The National Archives in June shares tips and tricks to navigate these complex but rich records. eventbrite.co.uk/e/early-modern…

29 March 1461. Yorkists defeat Lancastrians at Towton. It's such an evocative battlefield, especially on a snowy evening, & it's another of the walks I'll be describing on the new GUIDL app. It's already up on the Google Play store & will be on the Apple App Store v soon. #OTD

Just wanna REALLY emphasise that the Johnson surname is common as clarts and my scummy working class family has absolutely sod all to do with those other J persons who keep cropping up in public life. If we did I’d issue an apology but thank god we’re nowhere near related.

Things that should be cut but probably won't in cost-saving measures for universities:
1. the REF
2. restructuring advice from management consultants
3. contract with Key Travel
4. clunky 'virtual learning environment' when you could just email a PDF