Twilight and evening bell…
Saturday was my last football match of the season / campaign. I also revisited Westminster Abbey and the Guildhall Art Gallery. I also toured the Tower of London. The highlights Continue Reading →
Category Archives: History
Weekend 531.0
When I left Cambridge this morning it wasn’t snowing or as cold as it was on Palm Sunday 1461 in Towton. The placard for the White Horse Inn on the Continue Reading →
War of the Roses
This is not meant to be exhaustive and is a work in progress. One of my interests is the House of Percy and it started with the signet-ring at the Continue Reading →
The Harvest of Heads
(1) The Pandemic State Is Here to Stay (The Pipeline) “The state will continue to further corrode traditional liberties—privacy, assembly, mobility, communication, currency—towards the goal of citizen submission to a Continue Reading →
Weekend 529.0 (Towton and York)
“This battayl was sore foughten, for hope of life was set on every parte and takynge of prisoners was proclaimed as a great offence, by reason whereof every man determined Continue Reading →
Henry VI, Part 2
Henry was more martyr than king and developed a cult after he was slain. Quotes from The Brothers York by Thomas Penn: “As a shuffling Harry was led the short Continue Reading →
Weekend 528.0 (Barnet)
A quote from the The Brothers York by Thomas Penn: “The fog lent the fighting a more desperate edge than usual. Hand-gunners and archers fired at the invisible enemy at Continue Reading →
Henry VI
“A man who could, on occasion, assert his royal will and make decisions, but whose interests were not those of most medieval kings, being far more focused on his afterlife Continue Reading →
Weekend 526.0 (palaces made of lime and stone)
“People simply refused to believe what was happening…” Finished The Brothers York by Thomas Penn. Some more quotes, substitutions, archeological curiosities, and final thoughts (and what comes next). Quotes “Late Continue Reading →
Historical Redux: Edward IV 1496 versus Biden 2022
Just swap a couple of words in this quote from The Brothers York: An English Tragedy by Thomas Penn: “One chronicler, a Cambridge scholar, summed up the situation succinctly. The ‘common Continue Reading →