Publication of my short #PenguinMonarchs book on Henry VII on #WorldBookDay is wonderful. Enjoy the early #Tudor conspiracies, tragedies & @jodyhewgill.bsky.social‘s amazing cover painting. Thanks to the team @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
The site (from afar) of the Battlefield. Picture of a scrubby green field with a row of trees in the distance.
This Sunday we are looking forward to hearing John Whitehead from the Mid-Anglia Group, who will share his research on Bosworth - the Burials and the Healing. John was a guide at Bosworth Battlefield for many years. Via Zoom as all our meetings are, as our members crosses the country.
We can just imagine how useful this will be for late 15th c researchers!
Screen grab of a call for papers at Leeds IMC. The text reads: TIME FOR CHANGE: TEMPORALITIES & CASTLES Call for Papers - Leeds IMC 6-9 July 2026 - 'Temporalities' What is a castle in time? Is there a time of castles, for castles? Can castles be atemporal? What does a castle studies engaging with questions of temporality look like? Whose castle temporalities matter? Can we call time on the castle studies of yesterday, yesteryear? Can the lens of temporality challenge castle knowledges and interpretations? This panel welcomes proposals which examine temporalities and temporalities in castle studies as a field of inquiry at the intersection of (among others) medieval studies, architecture, archaeology, history, heritage and medievalism. Papers of between 15-20 minutes, by researchers at all career stages, discussing any aspects of castle studies research including but not limited to the following, are welcome: • Temporality in castle studies; • Remembering and memorializing in castle Obscured history, identities and heritages in spaces, communities, themes: past and castles past and present present; • Medieval temporalities and the heritage • Temporally situated antiquity, novelty and innovation in castles; • Planning, timing, scheduling, recording in • castle communities, lives, societies; • Ruined, lost and fictional castles in time Parallel and contradictory times; • Time and temporality in the reception of castles; Please send proposals (a title and abstract of no more than 200 words; short biography of 50 words or less), or any questions, to Dr William Wyeth (william.wyeth@english-heritage.org.uk) by 15 September 2025. This session is organised by Emma Fearon (Nottingham Trent University) and William Wyeth (English Heritage)
Please share: due to withdrawal I have a space on my castles panel for #LeedsIMC.
If you’ve an idea needs airing on time and temporalities in castles, give me a shout/submit via link! imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2026/pre... @imc-leeds.bsky.social @castlestudies.bsky.social
Original CfP below ⬇️
Programme for today’s conference.
Our online schools conference is today! The speakers are ready and the schools will be in place by start time at 9:00.
A painted image from a Medieval Book of Hours. The man is in the process of trimming a thick vine. He is warmly dressed with a hood that covers his shoulders and head. He wears a bright red hat on top of that. It is rolled at the bottom and comes to a point at the top.
As the days get longer, it is time to work outside again. This fellow with the bright hat is pruning the grape vines. Most March Labours of the Month show this or digging in the soil. (Trinity College, Cambridge B.11.31 f003r
The March Ricardian Bulletin for members of the Richard III Society is on its way to members. Do *you* agree with the top 100 greatest Ricardian reads? What do you know about .'Richard's Scottish invasion revisited', following the 1482 campaign route and re-assessing its implications?
A paper ticket giving entry to Pontefract Castle grounds in 1881 for £1, with faded handwritten parts, and fixed to a piece of cardboard for safe keeping
Pontefract Castle is free entry, for all! But it hasn't always been that way... 🏰
In the 1800s, the ruins were reworked into a Victorian 'pleasure park'. Entry was by subscription.
This ticket, giving a family entry for a year from August 1881 cost £1. That's around £70 today! 🤯
@canuckofthenorth.bsky.social thanks for following. You might be interested in to know that both our Canadian and American branches also have accounts. @richardiiisocca.bsky.social & @r3-society-usa.bsky.social
Enjoying the replay of a talk from the @richardiiisociety.bsky.social this evening, on the history of the Bosworth Heritage Centre, and the battlefield itself.
I do love these lectures, and at some point, should really get to Bosworth...
#history #RichardIII
The @ihr.bsky.social has brought all its online resources - journals, @vch-home.bsky.social, OA book series, @bho.bsky.social, BBIH, @layersoflondon.bsky.social, and more - into one section of its website for easier access bit.ly/4cCrpUD.
Much of this content is free to use online #Skystorians
Stained glass image of Clarence from Cardiff. A hound stands beside him, resting his head on his knee while George rents his arm on the dog's back.
A drawing by permission of Geoffrey Wheeler of George, Duke of Clarence based on the Rous Roll. He holds a sword in one hand, and a building in the other. A bull is at his feet.
18th February 1478 the death by execution of George duke of Clarence, brother to King Edward IV, who had Parliament charge him with treason. richardiii.net/george-duke-...
Tuck Postcards had some good artists.
Painting on an old postcard of the battle. Archers are in the front shooting arrows to the right where the enemy can be seen. Behind the archers are men in armour. At the top of the postcard it says St. Albans Pageant Official Postcard. On the bottom right it says The Second Battle of St. Albans Feb 17 1461
17 February 1461 The 2nd Battle of St. Albans. The Earl of Warwick and the Yorkists faced the Lancastrian army. It was a defeat for the Yorkists.The Lancastrians regained control of Henry VI who was found in a tent nearby.
A drawing of male head wearing a hat with an arm and hand pointing at written text.
Imagine your documents were marked up for editing with this guy. Terrifying! MS.B.2.25 mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...
#marginaliamonday
#medievalsky
Photo of a gold coin. In the middle is a rose surrounded by the rays of the sun.
With reports of a clear sky today, we feel it is time to show Edward IV’s rose noble with a sun in splendour in the centre. Image from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Excerpt from PROI PUB/Statutes/2/17 Statutes, Ordinances and Acts in a Parliament held at Naas, 35 Henry VI.
Ah! the romance of the middle ages 💘 St Valentine's Day 1450: John de la Hyde seized Ballyburley, Co. Offaly, from Geoffrey, Bishop of Kildare. King Henry VI ordered John to give it back. Offaly romantic, no? www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/PROI-PU...
@offalyhistory.bsky.social
#OTD in 1457, Mary of Burgundy was born at the grand Coudenberg Palace in Brussels. She would become one of the richest rulers in 15th c. Europe ruling one of the wealthiest and most urbanised areas - the Low Countries - in Europe.
Gilt bronze effigy of Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, recumbent with hands raised in prayer, in Westminster Abbey.
It was lovely to chat all things Lady Margaret Beaufort with @historylauren.bsky.social and @charlesxhistory.bsky.social for Historic Royal Palaces' latest podcast - www.hrp.org.uk/listen-to-th... - out today.
Ornately illustrated page from a Book of Hours. The page shown is the calendar for February and in the margin at the left is the note about Elizabeth's death. Royal 2 A XVIII f. 28v
2/11/1466 & 2/11/1503 The birth & the death of Elizabeth of York. Daughter of Elizabeth Woodville & Edward IV, wife to Henry VII. Image from the Beaufort Hours,owned by Margaret Beaufort, Elizabeth's mother-in-law. In the margins it says 'This day wher decessed Quene Elizabeth i the Tower of London
#HistParl's Dr Hannes Kleineke was a recent guest on the History Hit podcast Gone Medieval!
Dr Kleineke discussed the Parliament of February 1426, which saw some members take up bats and clubs to defend themselves against the threat of violence...
Listen to the episode here:
Richard Knox has no idea - it was before his time. But he is going to ask around.
Teaching the Wars of the Roses to 6th Formers? Our online schools conference is coming up quickly. Book now! Historians such as Prof John Watts, @jllaynesmith.bsky.social & @seanc1509.bsky.social will talk on Late Medieval Kingship, Margaret of Anjou, etc. www.warsoftheroses.com/schools-onli...
We might be able to send that question along to him. He talked about the changes over the years but didn’t mention that.
Our thanks to Richard Knox for a through look at the history of the Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, now celebrating 50 years!
Last week @mappingthemarch.bsky.social held a launch for my new book and a new book by the brilliant @mattlampitt.bsky.social in the atmospheric crypt of The Mount Without. It was so much fun to celebrate with friends, family, and colleagues who have supported us along the way! #medievalsky #newbook
Nearly 566 years ago, this gentle field saw one of the most decisive military encounters of the Wars of the Roses - the (4th) Battle of Northampton. I was privileged to receive a guided tour from Graham Evans, chair of the Northamptonshire Battlefield Society last week, in suitably rainy weather.
A man looks at the camera holding what might be a cannonball.
This Saturday, 7 February, members of the Richard III Society will be treated to a talk by Richard Knox. Knox, by training an archaeologist, is the Museum & Heritage Access & Interpretation Manager at Leicestershire County Council. Space is still available, check the latest RIII Mailing to members.
Indistinct image of Edward and his army and the three suns in the sky. From BL Harley MS 7353
Bottom of a pedestal from the 19th C about how Edward defeated the Lancastrian army led by Jasper Tudor.
2nd or 3rd February, the Battle of Mortimer's Cross. A young Edward Earl of March thought quickly when a parhelion showed up the day before, convincing his army that it meant God was on their side. And it was a victory for the Yorkists. Read more about the battle: richardiii.net/richard-iii-...
If you want to escape from thinking about current crisis by thinking about past crises 🤔, Paul Dryburgh and I are giving a @ihr.bsky.social seminar paper on Friday 13 February.
Come for embezzlement scandals, stay for Paul's thoughts on the Mortimer family.
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