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‘I got drunk – fie upon it’ – A look back at early modern alcohol consumption and guilt
By Alex Wakelam @A_Wakelam With the passing of the first month of the year many people across the country will be able to return to their vendor of choice and dispel their sobriety as Dry January ends. As a modern practice Dry January has its detractors but most agree that it’s a sensible idea to take a…
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Heritage in Austerity Britain
By James Dowsett – @jdowsea James in an MPhil Student in Modern British History at Cambridge. His research focusses on plebeian constitutionalism in the long eighteenth-century. March will be the final month the Queen Street and Helmshore Mill Museums are open to the public. These beleaguered monuments, the last working examples of the Lancashire cotton spinning…
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Electrical Entrepreneur? – The Life and work of Henry Massingham
by Kayt Button In the 1880s, long before the concept of Dragons Den, when the electrical supply industry was born it was up to pioneers, experimental entrepreneurs and evangelists who believed that electricity would change the world, to nurture it from a scientific possibility to a desirable and profitable commodity. One such man who believed…
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From ‘liquid flesh’ to chocolate – a brief history of Easter Eggs
by Elly Barnett – @eleanorrbarnett Elly is an MPhil student in Early Modern History. Her current research focusses on the links between food and the English Reformation. For most of us, the long Easter weekend was filled with family, drink, and an excessive amount of chocolate. Of course, Easter Sunday is the principal Christian feast in the…
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“In their reckless lust they forget their sex” – LGBT history in the Middle Ages
by Tim Wingard – @Physiololgus Tim is a graduate of the University of York’s Centre for Medieval Studies. His research interests include issues of historical sexuality, the latin bestiary, and medieval travel writing. There is a tendency in popular histories and in the teaching of the subject at school to assume that the Middle Ages were an inherently heterosexual…
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