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We're passionate about the English Civil Wars and 17th Century history! We're also reenactors - step into history and have an incredible weekend for just £10! www.earlofmanchesters.co.uk
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Love adventure and trying new things? Join us for as little as £10, with your kit provided, for an unforgettable experience! Message us now ➡️ earlofmanchesters.co.uk

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To see the process of loading and firing a matchlock musket, watch one of our musketeers over on TikTok vm.tiktok.com/ZNdJ71KhR/

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Very much looking forward to diving into Minoo's new book!

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How Did A Matchlock Musket Work? 💥 Once a musketeer had primed the pan and loaded the barrel of their musket with powder, wadding and a musket ball, the next step was to place a smouldering piece of match in the ‘serpent’ - the metal jaws that held the match in place. 📷: Michael Molcher

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In 1626, a Cambridge fishwife sliced open a cod, only to find a gelatinous, half-dissolved manuscript inside. It was published the next year under the name "Vox Piscis or, the Bookfish." At this point, why not get your news from inside a dead fish? #earlymodern #bookfish archive.org/details/bim_...

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Love adventure and trying new things? Join us for as little as £10, with your kit provided, for an unforgettable experience! Message us now ➡️ earlofmanchesters.co.uk

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How long would your commute take in 1680? Mine would be about a day and a half. @camunicampop.bsky.social has a brilliant tool for calculating travel times in Roman, 1680, 1830, 1911 and 2024. 🗃️ www.travelintimes.org/journey/52.2...

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It was a pleasure to be at Bletchley Park to show off our work on deciphering 17th century shorthand using AI that we have developed. It's a work in progress and we intend to open source it in order to help historians read the tens of thousands of unread pages of shorthand! #earlymodern #ai

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Fleeing from the battlefield! 🏃‍♂️🏳️

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Did you know there was a precursor of the famous Putney Debates of 1647? Another great episode of The World Turned Upside Down, with Andrew Hopper and John Morrill discuss the Saffron Walden debates and the Army’s revolt against Parliament www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/podcast/revo...

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Fleeing from the battlefield! 🏃‍♂️🏳️

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Was #EarlyModern England a monarchy, an oligarchy or a democracy? This week in Voices of the People at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, we debated the extent of popular participation in governance, from the royal palace to rural parishes, and I very nearly lost my head.

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The Siege of Hopton Castle 🏰

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Fighting at night! 🌙💥

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What was the Treaty of Uxbridge?

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📢FEBRUARY WILL OF THE MONTH📢 What happens when you reimagine John Pooke's 1607 will as his life story, complete with love interest & a mysterious character called 'Mother Sibill'? #EarlyModern 🗃️ #Skystorians @leverhulme.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

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What was the Treaty of Uxbridge?

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