Ellen Hawley
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American writer in Britain. A Decent World & Other People Manage (@_SwiftPress). Also The Divorce Diet, Open Line, & Trip Sheets. [email protected]
Cornwall, UK
Joined February 2014
DNA indicates that the burials around Stonehenge were from the beaker people, not from the culture that build Stonehenge and not from the mixed descendants of both groups. Read more 👉 https://t.co/Kd2S7D50cm
#Stonehenge #BritishHistory
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The recent discovery that one lone piece of Stonehenge was brought some 700 kilometers, either overland or by sea, from northern Scotland has led to a new theory about the monument’s purpose: that …
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Lambert Simnel, pretender to the English did not give his name to the simnel cake, which predates him. Read more 👉 https://t.co/60VfU3rT5d
#history #England #EnglishHistory
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"The biggest of the feudal lords still saw themselves as ruling under the king while Henry VIII saw himself as ruling, period–or if you want to be appropriately British about this, full stop. He was consolidating power in his hands." https://t.co/a0raoYBZbq
#EnglishHistory
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Our most recent slogs took us through Henry VIII’s dissolution of England’s religious houses and then through the Lincolnshire Rising, which was an effort to restore the monasteries. But keep your …
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When Henry VIII closed the monasteries, he faced some serious opposition, starting in October 1536 and centered on Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Read more 👉 https://t.co/L3sO9FqIcv
#HenryVIII #History #EnglishHistory
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Last week we slogged through the dissolution of England’s monasteries (and nunneries and friaries and so-fortharies) under Henry VIII, and it might’ve looked, to the casual reader, like everything …
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Even when Mary took the English throne and restored the Catholic Church, she couldn’t re-establish the monasteries. The real estate had been sold off. Read more 👉 https://t.co/AgJy9rHGHu
#HenryVIII #History #EnglishHistory
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When the US first proposed bringing Black troops to Britain during World War II, Anthony Eden, the secretary of state, objected on the grounds that Black people weren’t suited to the climate. Read more 👉 https://t.co/LuktDAJEFk
#BlackHistory #England #Britain
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The quote “Will no one rid me of the meddlesome priest?” comes from a 1964 movie, not from history. Or maybe that’s “turbulent priest.” Go watch the film yourself if you want to get it right. Read more 👉 https://t.co/JWTfiONxbA
#England #history
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As far as I know, you’ll find purists in any culture, along with the kind of people who drive them crazy, and there seems to be a balance between the two. Read more 👉 https://t.co/Tte1H2uelM
#language #EnglishLanguage
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The British (generalization alert here) love to blame America for corrupting their culture. Already the US has inserted trick-or-treating into Halloween and Americanisms into the language.  Or may…
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One of Britain's alternative blue plaques commemorates women thrown out of a Quaker meeting house for being profane and opinionated for talking about women's rights Read more 👉 https://t.co/dLoDGcFBcP
#history #EnglishHistory
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Britain isn’t short on history, and it isn’t short of the impulse to celebrate it. Or at least some of it. The part of it that fits the dominant narrative, whatever that is at the moment. One of th…
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When the Protestantism replaced England's Catholic Church, church ales fell out of favor. Read more 👉 https://t.co/lO9lEZ837k
#England #EnglishHistory
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What hasn’t been found on neolithic Orkney is weaponry, and the village of Skara Brae wasn’t in an easily defended spot, arguing that this was a time and place of peace. Read more 👉 https://t.co/uTI3ovBMhv
#skarabrae #history #Britain
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Starting in 1252, all English men between 15 and 60 were required to train with the longbow once a week. Read more 👉 https://t.co/iaRWmfU4hS
#longbow #HundredYearsWar #England
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Bigod's rebels were trying to influence the king--Henry VIII--and they chalked up some successes alongside their more obvious devastating losses. Read more 👉 https://t.co/rd8jE7VMym
#EnglishHistory #History #England
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Our most recent slogs took us through Henry VIII’s dissolution of England’s religious houses and then through the Lincolnshire Rising, which was an effort to restore the monasteries. But keep your …
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If you want to know the aim of England's early uprisings, look at the documents they destroyed Read more 👉 https://t.co/w76df6CYoQ
#HenryVIII #History #EnglishHistory
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How did they get the Stonehenge altar stone from somewhere in northern Scotland to the Salisbury Plain? Read more 👉 https://t.co/eh6k0k7aDU
#Stonehenge #prehistory #BritishHistory
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Want to change history? You have two choices: do something that changes the future or change the way we see the past. Neither one is easy, but a group of scientists studying the Stonehenge rocks ha…
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In 1540, the Court of First Fruits and Tenths took charge of money the monasteries had once sent to Rome, because the end of the monasteries didn’t mean the end of the payments people owed them. Read more 👉 https://t.co/wqWyyi9qeK
#HenryVIII #History #EnglishHistory
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"The best-known stories about American G.I.s in Britain during World War II involve white soldiers, who the British liked to say were over overpaid, overfed, oversexed, and over here, but the stories of Black G.I.s are fascinating--and important." https://t.co/KnmpDrtZq5
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"A service book, in case this is all as foreign to you as it is to me, is “a book published by the authority of a church body that contains the text and directions for the liturgy of its official religious services.”" https://t.co/ILtj7kvjiO
#England #history
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Medieval England had two mutually dependent centers of power, the church and the state. The state relied on the church for legitimacy. It was church ritual that turned a proto-king into a real one–…
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English Protestantism and the King’s Book of Sports Read more 👉 https://t.co/S2n5JRgknC
#history #EnglishHistory #SportsHistory
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