Jonathan Healey

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Everyone likes an alliterative early modern name of the day, so say hello to Dorothie Dipper 🙌

Thanks here to Barbara Donagan, whose book (once described to me as the best book ever written about the English Civil War), did so much to highlight Campion’s story.

Reading about the fascinating William Campion, who died at the siege of Colchester in 1648, and slightly tickled by this AI generated description.

‘His death marked the end of his support for the Royalist cause’. Well, yes, I suppose it probably would.

Good news in the British Museum polling re. the Bayeux Tapestry visit: 71% of parents want their children to learn more about the story of 1066 and 76% of responses agreed '1066 is an important part of British history and people should learn more about it'.
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One of the criticisms aimed at Prince Rupert by his comrades was that he was better at taking than keeping an advantage, which is basically the same thing you can say about Leeds United this season.

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Reminds me of Swift’s Modest Proposal.

Thank you!

Quick question for academics at U.K. universities. What provision does your institution have to allow lecturers at Grade 7 to take part in doctoral supervision?

Can they be lead supervisors? Are they always supported by senior colleagues, for example?

Definitely. Blue Weekend is such a good record.

Not fashionable to say it out loud but many of us love research and consider it a core part of what we trained to do.

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Obviously Sam Fender should win the best album Brit. I’m a bit loyal to Wolf Alice, but am afraid their latest record just aggressively sucks.

Well the refreshments definitely look excellent!

A mezzotint image of King Charles II above a headline saying "Listen: Charles II, How years in exile shaped his life". At the top is the logo for 'The World Turned Upside Down' and the slogan 'People, events and ideas of the British Civil Wars explored and explained by leading historians'

One of the most formative decades in the adolescent life of Charles II was spent in exile. On the latest 'The World Turned Upside Down', Prof. Clare Jackson discusses these shadowy and critically important years for the young King www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/podcast/char...

Trad/Cavalier Twitter is about to implode…

Barbara Donagan notes how royalists often 'retired from the stage through death, disfavour, or faction', while 'their opponents more often made their exits declaring their loyalty to parliament but complaining that the cause, not they, had changed.'

Ah, she explicitly says at the beginning that her focus will be solely on England - not because Ireland and Scotland are unimportant - but because the English portion of those wars had its own distinctiveness. For what it’s worth, I agree!

Barbara Donagan on the two sides in the English Civil War:

'superficial similarities of constitutional formulae did not disguise basic differences in the way power could be exercised, and these affected the way in which each side conducted its war and its politics.'

Is this what they call soft power?

Michael Kirby has much to answer for.

Haha - yes!

(the role of the Lords here is obviously one complexity)

On the other hand the theory of popular sovereignty behind the 1649 Act is effectively implicit in the earlier ordinances, starting with the Militia Ordinance of 5 March 1642. Ordinances were supposed to be for when the monarch was incapacitated- yet here he clearly wasn’t.

Yes. The Act of 6 Jan 1649 was passed without assent by either Lords or Commons - the theory being that it was only the Commons that mattered as they represented the people.

That muffled but delighted giggle you can hear is the various parts of John Cook in their disparate graves...

I think you're right in the sense that the HCJ was set up by an act of Parliament later deemed illegal. Though I think all judgements in other common law courts like CP and the 'Upper Bench' were treated as normal.

South Korea court cites Charles I precedent to convict Yoon of insurrection South Korea court cites Charles I precedent to convict Yoon of insurrection Court links ancient treason doctrine to modern verdict as Jee Kui-youn hands Yoon life sentence for Dec. 3 martial law

Absolutely fascinating to see the trial of Charles I cited in modern day South Korea.

Be interesting whether the regicide could ever be used as a precedent in an English court though...

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Stephen Baxter the scholar: an appreciation (1969-2026)

Shocked to learn of the untimely death of Stephen Baxter. He was an astonishing intellect and a fantastic tutor. He will be greatly missed.

www.history.ox.ac.uk/stephen-baxt...

I can believe this bit too….

Yes definitely!