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‘Trojan horse’ and indoctrinating youth in eighteenth-century England
Carys Brown @HistoryCarys Two years ago ‘Operation Trojan Horse’ caused widespread alarm in the media and panic on the part of the British government. Yet the concern about religious and political influences in schools is hardly new. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, writers concerned about the enemy within targeted Protestant Dissenters. Their suggestions about…
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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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Crying Wolf in the early middle ages?
By Robert Evans @R_AH_Evans The chronicles and histories of the early middle ages have a reputation for describing somewhat unusual events. In his history of contemporary events, for example, Prudentius, bishop of Troyes (d.861) describes how, in 846 ‘Wolves attacked and devoured with complete audacity the inhabitants of the western part of Gaul. Indeed, in some…
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21. Statue of the holy burial
By Savannah Pine (@savannah_pine) El Paso has two of the oldest Spanish missions in Texas. Both were founded in 1682 by Spanish Franciscans and converted Pueblos who fled Santa Fe for El Paso during the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.[1] One of the missions, la Misión de San Antonio de Ysleta del Sur, is still in…
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9. Broken Letters from the Cloppenburg Press
By Niles Webb This collection of three ‘B’s includes the kind of subtle hints which historians are forced to rely upon if they seek to reconstruct the history of religious radicalism in Britain. Radicals themselves left few sources behind, whilst those seeking to discredit them left many. In the words of the Leveller Richard Overton,…
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