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These elections have shown pro-environment parties and mayors who made net zero central to their campaigns made significant gains.

Reform have won 2 council seats out of 2500.

Time to recognise the net zero row back and kowtowing to an extreme fringe was a strategic disaster

Sharing my favourite image of Cecily duchess of York on her birthday - and if anyone still believes that TV show about her alleged adultery, please see Livia Visser-Fuchs's excellent article in The Ricardian: richardiii.net/wp-content/upl…

What is so jaw dropping about the chapter house at Wells is its nested arboreal complexity - the feeling as if you are walking through a wooded glade. #thread

First up, most appropriate seems Sumer is Icumen In, surviving in a manuscript from Reading Abbey, just down the hill from where I'm playing this - read all about it at the Reading Museum website: readingmuseum.org.uk/online-exhibit…

History students - the MortimerHistorySoc is offering two £1,000 bursaries for students researching the medieval Welsh March, Marcher lordships or the Mortimer family. See if you're eligible! #historybursaries #Mortimer #Welshhistory #Medievalhistory Matthew Lewis Medievalists.net

Did you know that the fantastic MortimerHistorySoc offer not one, but two research bursaries? Applications are open now until 30 June. You can find more details here:
mortimerhistorysociety.org.uk/society/bursar…

Happy #NoMowMay Day! But please do keep the mower locked up for June, July and August too - your lovely long grass will attract all sorts of wildlife, from caterpillars to hedgehogs, that will benefit from their habitat remaining all summer long 🌱🐝🦋🐛🦔🕷️🐞

Edward IV claimed to have secretly married his queen, Elizabeth, on 1st May, the most romantic day of the medieval year. There's a lovely article on Elizabeth's device - the gillyflower or pink - at richardiii.net/wp-content/upl…

Have you had a chance to read Gordon McKelvie's new work on rumour in 15th-century Scottish politics Institute of Historical Research? It's free and open access at the link below!

Pleased to have been appointed to the board of The Historian magazine (Historical Assoc) with particular oversight for local history. I'd be interested to hear proposals for short pieces on your local history research. history.org.uk/publications/c…

Excited for this next week. Places still available, but booking essential! 🙏🏻

The great Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh kicking off the #MCW24 Canterbury Christ Church University weekend, raising money for the Ian Coulson fund. We’ll be kicking off with the similarly great Louise J. Wilkinson who will be speaking on ‘Move over Maid Marian! Women in the Medieval English Forest’

Funded PhD scholarship in legal history, at UCL and The National Archives.

Supervised by me and Dan Gosling Daniel F Gosling

Please share - or get in touch if you’re interested in applying

jobs.ac.uk/job/DHI022/ahr…

This altarpiece of the early Tudor royal family with St George was among the unexpected bonus items in the recent Holbein exhibition. St George was dear to the House of York too - a prayer to him was inserted in Duke Richard's book of hours, and Cecily owned a tapestry of him.

Today is St George’s Day, the patron saint of England, so here is a magnificent wall painting of George fighting the dragon. From Pickering Church depicting, North Yorkshire, dating to around 1470. I shall nod to the bluebells today.

650 years ago today on #StGeorgesDay the poet Geoffrey Chaucer was given a rather unusual royal gift, a daily allowance of a pitcher (roughly a gallon) of wine...

The original letters patent for the grant are on display The National Archives until the end of the month

Have you seen this Annie Garthwaite? Sikh women contemporaries of the powerful women of WOTR at Bosworth Battlefield Centre cultureleicestershire.co.uk/projects/herst…