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Large and Archaeologically Distinctive, or Invisible?
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A colourful and shocking set of nicknames in early medieval Winchester leave historians as confused as they are amused; what might they have meant?
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Explaining Viking Trade Weights 'Viking-Age’ trade weights are a widely attested phenomena in Scandinavia, but equally so in England. Manufactured in a…
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Eadric Silvaticus (‘the wild’), who rebelled against king William I in the years after the Norman Conquest of 1066, has become something of a mythical…
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How was the built environment used to express power and status?
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I am terribly bored by the history of great people. Wars and politics, currency reforms, royal marriages, fiscal policy, state-building, trade treaties…
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A (mercifully) short post today, looking at the remarkably consistent use of food to express power by the elite before the Norman Conquest.
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An Introduction
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Alongside Eadric ‘the Wild’, Hereward ‘the Wake’ occupies a semi-mythological status. Rising in rebellion in 1070 against Norman occupation following…
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I’ve recently rediscovered a recording of the first ever conference paper I gave, almost two years ago. It focused on the question of nicknames in the…
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If we’re going to start thinking seriously about nicknames as a historical source, monarchs are a good place to start. For one, we have far more…
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The Exon Domesday is the surviving record of an earlier stage of the Domesday survey of England in 1086, covering a circuit of the South-West of…
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