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A Christmas (out)fit for a king?

Rewind to a dancing doublet, cockles of silver – and a very happy new year

Jan 3

December 2025

Give the gift of The H Files

On Christmas Day 1454, King Henry VI of England, who’d been in a catatonic stupor for seventeen months, suddenly recovered consciousness.

Dec 22, 2025

Digging up kings #4½

Lord Byron wades in

Dec 16, 2025

Digging up kings #4

Charles I – with a little Henry VIII on the side – in St George's Chapel, Windsor

Dec 14, 2025

How to read the Paston Letters #9

Listen to your mother

Dec 9, 2025

November 2025

A headless saint, some headless kings, and the geology of time

Nov 30, 2025

a ffoule Derke day off myste and off haylle

Nov 18, 2025

What's in a name?

This week I have been mostly thinking about royal titles

Nov 12, 2025

October 2025

How to read the Paston Letters #8

William's Will: Knives Out

Oct 31, 2025

Constance of York

Noblewomen behaving badly

Oct 20, 2025

... and Winners

Drumroll please

Oct 12, 2025

On Writing, Waterstones, Westminster Abbey and the Wolfson

Updates, thank yous, and the history of a history prize

Oct 5, 2025

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