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Tell me you haven't read a history book without telling me.... Hell even one of the endless History Channel World War II documentaries would be a start.

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Tomorrow US audiences get to experience the final episode of The Mirror and Light. So it seems a good time to share this article on how true the series is. I have to admit I struggle with this question, mainly because I want to ask "what is truth?" www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts...

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I do this soo much - including on public transport (conveniently forgetting that I get motion sickness and can't read!)

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Checking out the Dark Hedges before they entirely succumb to old age and storms #gameofthrones #thekingsroad

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I can't say I have every wondered what a cottage costs in eels but I love that someone has put this conversion out there for the world to enjoy

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Geological phenomenon or pathway constructed by an Irish giant so he could pick a fight with a Scottish giant? The fab National Trust guide at the Giant's Causeway was definitely selling us on the latter!

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One of the Beaghmore stone circles in Northern Ireland. I wonder what the people who built this thousands of years ago would make of us? Would we be able to find any common ground? #archaeology

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Can anyone in Wakefield confirm whether a large castle has unexpectedly appeared in the town centre?

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The TBR pile has got a bit out of hand so time to get stuck in while on the train #histbookchat

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I'm never going to be able to look at a murmuration of starlings the same way again 😆

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I had the pleasure of speaking to the lovely folks at the PBS website content team, and Masterpiece Studio podcast ahead of The Mirror and the Light broadcast in the US. The first of my podcast appearances is now available here: www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterp...

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Watching the rhythm dance at the Ice Skating Worlds and I swear the BBC commentator just explained the "popular dances from 1950s/60s/70s" theme as being the era when dance stopped being a performance art and became available to everyone. I am baffled and questioning my hearing now 🤔

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Blue paper towels have a near magical status at the child's school. Lost a tooth? Have a blue paper towel. Scraped your knee? Blue paper towel. Bumped your head? Wet blue paper towel.

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The early Victoria County Histories are at times infuriating (there is an, understandable given the dates of publication, obsession with detailing the descent of the local manor over non-manorial social history) but I honestly couldn't imagine doing my work without them. So thanks #WHSmith I guess!

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I had always assumed that starred ceilings were painted directly on to the ceiling. It was a surprise to discover that in the 16th-century the stars at Rycote Chapel were created by cutting up old playing cards, painting the backs gold and sticking them to the ceiling. (stars now in Thame museum)

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Thanks to this post I now know that there is a museum of medicine in a former church. And now I want to go to Chester.

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Hmmm... Go on then, I guess I will continue my excursion into the travails of the 17th century. #histbookchat

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In which I talk about the duke of Norfolk... I think they edited out some of my harsher comments on him! www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Uc... #tudors #tudorhistory #themirrorandthelight #wolfhall #thomascromwell #hilarymantel #historicaldrama

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Exploring Time and Glass in Venice: A Review of Tracy Chevalier’s The Glassmaker Tracy Chevalier's The Glassmaker is an ode not just to her main character, Orsola Rosso, but also to the Murano glass industry and the city of Venice. Chevalier's Venice is an ethereal, other-wordly place that exists…

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400 years ago today, Charles I became king of England, Scotland and Ireland. It went really well for him.

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Even if I didn't know it was coming, my blog stats would suggest that the Mirror and the Light has started broadcasting in the US.... #blog #themirrorandthelight #tudors #blogging

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#otd 16 February 1547, Henry VIII was buried in St George's chapel, Windsor. At that time a grand tomb was nearing completion, however, no trace of it remains today. A while back I did a deep dive into the information we have about this lost tomb kclaidenyardley.com/2022/02/16/h...

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A Tudor themed Valentine's blog post kclaidenyardley.com/2024/12/15/m...

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A new experience in the archives today - my document was so large it took five people to unfold and didn't fit on the large documents table! #archives #history #historicalresearch

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Researching domestic properties that were/are owned by Oxbridge colleges is the best. You can be pretty certain there will be some paper trail. #archives #research

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Does anyone else have words that just sound wrong and made up to them? Logically I get "eleventhly" has to exist as a word but it sounds fake when I read it...

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It seems that archive visits are like buses - none for ages then three consecutively! #history #research #archives

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Listening to Devil-land by Clare Jackson and whilst I love my Tudors, we are severely sleeping on the 17th century as a nation. Quite apart from the whole civil wars, the Dutch just casually captured Sheerness fort then sailed up the river and stole an entire English war ship??? #history

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Did a whistle stop tour of three classes at the child's school today to talk about the Tudors. Some very impressive knowledge of beds and toilets mixed in with questions about clothes, education, sport, executions, and whether the Tudors had nunchucks! #TudorHistory

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Some unusual and delightful finds yesterday: a 1628 pulpit with sounding board and attached hourglass/sword stannd; cute creatures on the stand; medieval glass depicting the Virgin Mary (somehow escaped iconoclasm); 14th century brass with a nice 5 o'clock shadow (All Saints Church, Binfield)

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When your one job is to carve an inscription and you do this...

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On a scale of 1 (not surprised) to 10 (surprised), how surprised are we that Henry VIII nabbed all the reusable bits he could get from Wolsey's tomb to use for his own memorial? TudorHistory Image: one of the said "repurposed " parts

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