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Thank you to everyone who joined my webinar for @SmithsonianSA this afternoon, celebrating the recent publication of βFairies: A Historyβ in the USA! π§ββοΈπΊπΈπͺ politybooks.com/bookdetail?booβ¦
Dr Francis Young
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Dr Francis Young
@DrFrancisYoung
Historian of religion & belief | folklorist | indexer | CofE Reader | lay canon @stedscath | series editor @CambridgeUP | π±πΉ enjoyer
- Spain has really played the long game with this one, but respect where itβs dueThe Spanish galleon AndalucΓa passing through Tower Bridge.
00:00 - Shoutout to those Westminster School lads of the 18th century who graffitied their names on St Edward's Chair, which we're only now able to see thanks to the quality of broadcast image! π
- Harry has no respect for English royal tradition, a proper prince would have fomented a rebellion in Ireland by now and raised an army of gallowglass. Whereβs the conspiring with the Burgundians? Where are the promises to magnates?
- This notice has appeared in The Hastings Observer every 14 October since 1067He will never be forgotten
- Replying to @DrMichaelBonnerThis is cruelty to anyone who ever studied Greek
- An online attitude thatβs developed in the last 20 years and really bugs me is the idea that all historical information is available somewhere on the web. No, itβs not. There are historians working at the evidential coalface every day to make it available
- Replying to @AlexInAir and @militaryhistoriTurns out the Bermuda Triangle can make planes disappear after all
- Well, Iβm not sure Iβve ever seen a title of a journal article that goes this hard
- Of course, part of the reason it's 'totally modern looking' is that the Modernist aesthetic of the 1920s and 30s that has so profoundly informed our idea of what modernity looks like was influenced by the popularity of Egyptology at the timeThis golden collar was found in the tomb of an unnamed queen of the Nubian ruler, Shebitka (712β698 BC), one of the Nubian pharaohs who ruled over Egypt during the 25th Dynasty. This totally modern looking collar is a beautiful solid gold collar forming a complete circle
- The main target of todayβs expedition was this, however - an excavated Roman bathhouse in a corrugated iron bunker under the A1(M) near Welwyn. And this is a place with which I have a special connectionβ¦ (thread)
- Absolutely insane that Lord Lovat exercised his right as Chief of Clan Fraser to have a personal piper accompany him in the vanguard of the D-Day landings on Sword Beach (pipers were by then no longer allowed at the frontline in the British Army)
- At a Cambridge pizzeria where the tables are meticulously constructed Swiss model railway scenes and it might be the best thing ever
