Helen Castor
@hrcastor
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Blood & Roses, She-Wolves, Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I, THE EAGLE AND THE HART https://t.co/HTfCdqRfuy
Joined August 2016
🚨PAPERBACKS INCOMING🚨 These truly beautiful things are officially launched on 2 October. If you’ve been thinking about reading THE EAGLE AND THE HART in paperback, please do consider preordering (which, strange though it may sound, makes a huge difference to books and authors)
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The Cirencester History Festival has been hugely successful again this year and is going from strength to strength. Today I was fascinated to hear about the rivalry of Richard II and Henry IV in a compelling event with @hrcastor at the impressive Bingham Hall in Cirencester.
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For grandmas everywhere: St Anne with Mary and Jesus. It is in the cathedral museum in Santiago de Compostela
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Will be there tomorrow!
Quick recce in Cirencester’s glorious church of St John the Baptist, before my talk later today. One of England’s finest ‘wool’ churches.
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The White Hart Inn, Southwark, was demolished 8 years after this photo was taken in 1889. Although the Inn was pulled down, it was memorialised in literature by William Shakespeare in 'Henry VI Part Two' and Charles Dickens in 'The Pickwick Papers.' 🍻
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Multiple narratives, a disputed will… Drama at the deathbed of William Paston (link ⬇️)
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A devastating novel, an impeccably constructed thriller, a gripping dark fantasy, an extraordinary true story, an invaluable guide to financial freedom, an atmospheric YA fantasy and an epic adventure... Which October Book of the Month was your favourite? https://t.co/gV1Cx5u8kA
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The ruined south transept at St Margaret's, Cley-next-the-Sea this morning — as you can see, this morning's north wind had blown away every tiny shred of cloud anywhere near our part of the coast
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A page from an unfinished Book of Hours, attributed to the workshop of the Bedford Master in Paris, in the early 15th century. Work on the book may well have stopped after the patron who commissioned it was killed at the Battle of Agincourt - Paris, c. 1415 (image, Sam Fogg Ltd)
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@TheHistoryOfTh2 It is a good opportunity to listen to @hrcastor ‘s 2015 talk at @GreshamCollege on the battle. What I enjoy so much about Helen is her clear, unsentimental lens. In the talk she strips away romance, terrain, weather, logistics, memory and lets evidence speak. That kind of rigor
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After years of tweeting and lecturing about this magnificent tapestry, I finally saw it in person today. 😍
1/3 One of the most extraordinary works of art at the @mfaboston is almost never exhibited: a 16' long, mid-15th century tapestry, depicting the hair-covered wild men of medieval German mythology. It comes from the princely Sigmaringen collection, broken up and sold after WWI.
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Even after all these centuries it’s still such a sick burn that the main brand of Madeira on sale in the UK is called ‘Duke of Clarence’
#OTD 21 October 1449: birth of George, duke of Clarence, later allegedly drowned in a butt of Malmsey.
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If you need a break from reading about scandal in the house of York, I’ve written about a very different scandal in the house of York… Link follows below
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omg can I add one? I was thinking so hard about my elders and betters that I managed to leave out an actual rockstar among the young… If you want to understand the 15th C, you HAVE to read @dgjones HENRY V
Explore Helen Castor's (@hrcastor) top picks in historical non-fiction, from remarkable manuscripts to medieval politics. See her selection on our @bookshop_org_UK page📚 https://t.co/S8wRXb0KjO
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A seemingly modern moment of abstraction in a medieval manuscript, representing silence as a yellow rectangle: https://t.co/tiLbCX2cwO “And when he opened the 7th seal, there followed a silence in heaven about the space of half an hour” (Silos Apocalypse, BL Add MS 11695)
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