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On Christmas Day 1454, King Henry VI of England, who’d been in a catatonic stupor for seventeen months, suddenly recovered consciousness.
Digging up kings #4½
Lord Byron wades in
Digging up kings #4
Charles I – with a little Henry VIII on the side – in St George's Chapel, Windsor
How to read the Paston Letters #9
Listen to your mother
Denis Denis
A headless saint, some headless kings, and the geology of time
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Constance of York
The adventures of Joan Holand, duchess of York
Welcome to The H Files
Digging up kings #3
Blak Monday
a ffoule Derke day off myste and off haylle
What's in a name?
This week I have been mostly thinking about royal titles
How to read the Paston Letters #8
William's Will: Knives Out
Constance of York
Noblewomen behaving badly
... and Winners
Drumroll please
On Writing, Waterstones, Westminster Abbey and the Wolfson
Updates, thank yous, and the history of a history prize
Listening to Joan of Arc #3
I saw the sign
The H Files by Helen Castor
The H Files by Helen Castor
Dispatches from behind the scenes of the history I write
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My Life in the Past
My Life in the Past
Lucy Worsley
Receipt from the Bookshop
Receipt from the Bookshop
Katie Clapham
Not Being Funny But by Emma Rowley
Not Being Funny But by Emma Rowley
Emma Rowley
History, Etc
History, Etc
Dan Jones
Writing the Garden
Writing the Garden
Lucy Writes History

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