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David Crowther @historyengland.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Duncan Grant, Vanessa and Quentin Bell at Berwick Church

David Crowther @historyengland.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

We hugged the Oak, and came ro a circumference of 27ft. So this fine oak we can age (with utter confidence) to 700 years old

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David Crowther @historyengland.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

40 years since anyone except the Old Firm became Scottish champions - today could be the day. So - good luck Hearts!

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David Crowther @historyengland.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Beaver eating its testicles for your delight and delectation

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David Crowther @historyengland.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A medieval mason cheekily carving faces on the priest door at Barfrestone, maybe giving options for his mood that day

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David Crowther @historyengland.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

My St George's day pint in The Hero. Can you guess whose quite is on the beam: 'I am a Norfolk man and glory in being so'?

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David Crowther @historyengland.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

'When kissing's out of fashion, Gorse is out of bloom' Phew! Gorse or furze?

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David Crowther @historyengland.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I started doing a personal of the month not sure why, but atarted late not caught up. Here's February. The Lord Nelson, in his birthplace of Burnham Thorpe. 17th century, once the Plough inn renamed im 1798 and the Battle of the Nile. It was a beaut; has been modified (it needed it) still lovely

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David Crowther @historyengland.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

RIP Glen Baxter. He made me laugh so hard, so often. This one is my personal fave, which also hit a nerve...

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Fiona Robertson @stonelands.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Happy John Aubrey Day – 400 years old today! The original stone botherer, who recognised the Avebury stones for the prehistoric marvel they are, and rightly commented that the site 'doth as much exceed Stonehenge as a cathedral doth a parish church'.

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David Crowther @historyengland.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm read Robert Colls' 'George Orwell', a satistyingly short book; Colls is a tremendous historian, with a brilliant writing style. Just got to the bit where Orwell describes himself as 'lower upper middle class' which is about as English as you get

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David Crowther @historyengland.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Loved this. Thoroughly good point - and a walk down memory lane youtu.be/UsdtyuSmoXs?...

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BBC TV Licence Advert (1985)

YouTube video by RobsOldVideos

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David Crowther @historyengland.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Frank Skinner for In Our Time. Vote now! (Not sure where, but vote)

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kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

sad day today. we had to bury my mother. she wasn’t dead yet she just wouldn’t stop asking questions during a movie.

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I love the hybrid creatures from ancient Mesopotamia. They hint at what scared people, what protected them, and more. This is a “lion man” (urmahlilu), a magical creature that once flanked the entrance to King Ashurbanipal’s palace in Nineveh to protect against harm.

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David Crowther @historyengland.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Cromwell & his Reputation Historiography is one of the things I enjoy most covering in the podcast. And Cromwell's historiography has got to be one of the most fascinating. Here then is an episode I did recently on the subject. thehistoryofengland.co.uk/blog/2024/11...

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419 Cromwell and his Reputation

How history has viewed and judged Oliver Cromwell

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

‘May it please your Majesty, but they have gone over to Bluesky now.’

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David Crowther @historyengland.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

This is Alfred Bourne. In addition to his excellent hat and beard game, he was Secrerary of the British & Foreign Schools Society for 40 years to 1908. The Society established about 3,800 elementary schools, on the principal of non donominational education.

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David Crowther @historyengland.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Autumnal-ness in Oxfordshire. Quite a lot if these woods have quite young trees. I'm guessing that's because they were used for camps for US and Canadian Air Corps in WWII

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David Crowther @historyengland.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Who says history isn't good, practical vocational education? Picking up interpersonal skills training from 'the arts of wooing and Complimenting'. If you're out tonight, give 'you walk in artificial clouds and bathe your silken limbs in wanton dalliance' a whirl and see how it goes

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David Crowther @historyengland.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

It's podcast recording day. If i wrote a good script, recording day is full of joy and laughter. If it turns out to be rubbish it's a day of pain, editing, distress and potenitally an exploding head. Fingers crossed

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Fr. Cannabranna Lammer. @drraulduke.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

At Parents evening.

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David Crowther @historyengland.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

I am 60, and have been so for 3 days. And this has been reinforced because 1) i went to the pharmacist for a presciption and it was free 2) a Bowel Cancer Screening set arrived from the NHS Forget Beltane or Confirmation and all that. These are the modern day rites of passage.

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David Crowther @historyengland.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

For no particular reason, here is the roof of a church I visited at south Creake. It had a rather nice roof which I looked in a CCT book. It told me it's an Angel roof, of which there are 170 in England & Wales, 70% of which are in East Anglia. Puls single Hammer Beam roof. Thoroughly lovely

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David Crowther @historyengland.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

The bridge over the mighty River Chater, in Champion land, prime hunting- steeple chasing territory. Heading for the medieval village that was and no longer is, Martinsthorpe

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David Crowther @historyengland.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

This is the time of year i know spring is just round the corner because the mistle thrush in my garden starts drowning out the Robins - who have been enjoying a bust up for weeks. All part of an annual, seasonal build up.

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Tim Dedopulos @ghostwoods.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

You have been waiting for a sign.

An alignment chart of signposts, where the scales are hubris and information.

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