Wednesday, 20 November 2024
The voice of King Richard III
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There have been several media reports about a project to reconstruct the voice of King Richard iII. The result seemingly spoken by an avatar...
Tuesday, 12 November 2024
Sculptured stones from Old Sarum emerge in Salisbury
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The BBC News website recently reported the discovery during repair work on the medieval walls of the Close at Salisbury Cathedral of carved...
Sunday, 10 November 2024
Remembering the battle of Varna in 1444
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Every year this point in November with Remembrance Day and the anniversary of the 1918 Armistice focuses the thoughts of most of us on the c...
Saturday, 9 November 2024
Anglo-Saxon culture and the Silk Road
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I have quite often written about evidence for the interrelated patterns of trade and cultural contact that bound Anglo-Saxon England not onl...
The threat to the Lincolnshire landscape
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Yesterday the Daily Telegraph had a timely article about the threat posed to the Lincolnshire countryside by the plans for a line of pylons...
Thursday, 7 November 2024
A Bridgettine volume at the British Library
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The British Library Medieval manuscripts blog has a feature about Harleian MS 612 from the great Bridgettine house of Syon Abbey founded b...
It’s still not Mrs President
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So another US Presidential election has come and almost gone, and we know who will be the occupant of the White House for the forthcoming fo...
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Tuesday, 5 November 2024
The Coronation of King Henry VI in 1429
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595 years ago today, King Henry VI was crowned at Westminster. Two years later he was to be crowned as King of France in Notre Dame in Pari...
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