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Anyway a strange tidbit turned up when I discovered that Alfred had not actually founded our oldest university. The University of Oxford for hundreds of years had deliberately perpertrated the King Al ...

The journals of Simonds d'Ewes were first published by his nephew, Paul Bowes, in 1682, more than thirty years after his death. Bowes seemed to follow a similar career trajectory to his uncle. He was, ...

One can see why historians might have misgivings. Information about D'Ewes is patchy, at times contradictory, most if not all presumably culled from his diaries/ Journals /Autobiography. It seems the ...

Historians studying the seventeenth-century set great store by Sir Simonds d'Ewes, a politician, antiquary and prolific diarist (1602 - 1650). According to Wiki

His chief scholarly legacy is the c ...

Nazanin was correct: they should have acknowledged the debt would have to paid one day so why not straightaway.
There may have been a degree of American influence on the Foreign Office's shilly-shall ...

'Yetholm-style' bronze shields have surfaced on Twitter

The remarkable Late Bronze Age (1200-900BC) Rhos Rydd shield was pulled from a bog nr #Aberystwyth in the C19th & is now on display in t ...

Valieva's explanation was she ingested her grandfather's angina medication by mistake. Possibly from a trace element lying around, not from the box of pills itself

Kamila Valieva’s legal team ha ...

A photo of the 'oldest carpet in the world' was posted on Twitter this morning. It's not clear how or if it has been scientifically dated but the rug is 'thought to be' two thousand+ years old. Wiki s ...

The Book of Margery Kempe. The part where Margery (the first woman to write her autobiography in English) goes to meet Julian of Norwich (the first woman to write any sort of book in English). Margery ...

Have archaeologists uncovered human remains of barbarians near the wall? They used to believe that Maiden's Castle in Dorset was a killing zone, mainly because Mortimer Wheeler said so, until it becam ...

Hadrian's Wall came up in Digging for Britain (BBC2). I wasn't really paying attention but woke up when someone mentioned that the earliest reference to Hadrian's Wall was in a biography of Hadrian, w ...

It's turning into the Coen Brothers, Aussie-style.

The conclusions reached are based on a relatively small number of samples. Where the samples were found isn't clear, perhaps it was Kent

Analyzing DNA from 793 individuals, the investigators disco ...

According to Nature, this 'large-scale migration wave from eastern France' originated from the steppes, as usual with 'hordes'

By analyzing the degraded DNA from the remains of 400 ancient Europea ...

Vienna Blood (BBC2) embarked on Series 2 last week and a rather dull affair I thought, but a somewhat unreliable source insisted the second episode was worth watching. It did liven up considerably, br ...

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Topic: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Hatty Replies: 2432 Views: 395487	Forum: British History Posted: 9:29 am Subject: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Hatty Replies: 2432 Views: 395487	Anyway a strange tidbit turned up when I discovered that Alfred had not actually founded our oldest university. The University of Oxford for hundreds of years had deliberately perpertrated the King Al ...
Topic: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Hatty Replies: 2432 Views: 395487	Forum: British History Posted: 4:56 pm Subject: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Hatty Replies: 2432 Views: 395487	The journals of Simonds d'Ewes were first published by his nephew, Paul Bowes, in 1682, more than thirty years after his death. Bowes seemed to follow a similar career trajectory to his uncle. He was, ...
Topic: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Hatty Replies: 2432 Views: 395487	Forum: British History Posted: 3:50 pm Subject: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Hatty Replies: 2432 Views: 395487	One can see why historians might have misgivings. Information about D'Ewes is patchy, at times contradictory, most if not all presumably culled from his diaries/ Journals /Autobiography. It seems the ...
Topic: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Hatty Replies: 2432 Views: 395487	Forum: British History Posted: 3:01 pm Subject: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Hatty Replies: 2432 Views: 395487	Historians studying the seventeenth-century set great store by Sir Simonds d'Ewes, a politician, antiquary and prolific diarist (1602 - 1650). According to Wiki His chief scholarly legacy is the c ...
Topic: War on Terrorism
Hatty Replies: 1107 Views: 183429	Forum: Politics Posted: 1:29 pm Subject: War on Terrorism
Hatty Replies: 1107 Views: 183429	Nazanin was correct: they should have acknowledged the debt would have to paid one day so why not straightaway. There may have been a degree of American influence on the Foreign Office's shilly-shall ...
Topic: Meetings with Remarkable Forgeries
Hatty Replies: 737 Views: 125149	Forum: British History Posted: 11:11 am Subject: Meetings with Remarkable Forgeries
Hatty Replies: 737 Views: 125149	'Yetholm-style' bronze shields have surfaced on Twitter The remarkable Late Bronze Age (1200-900BC) Rhos Rydd shield was pulled from a bog nr #Aberystwyth in the C19th & is now on display in t ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Hatty Replies: 2728 Views: 314923	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 9:51 am Subject: The Importance of Sport
Hatty Replies: 2728 Views: 314923	Valieva's explanation was she ingested her grandfather's angina medication by mistake. Possibly from a trace element lying around, not from the box of pills itself Kamila Valieva’s legal team ha ...
Topic: Meetings with Remarkable Forgeries
Hatty Replies: 737 Views: 125149	Forum: British History Posted: 12:49 pm Subject: Meetings with Remarkable Forgeries
Hatty Replies: 737 Views: 125149	A photo of the 'oldest carpet in the world' was posted on Twitter this morning. It's not clear how or if it has been scientifically dated but the rug is 'thought to be' two thousand+ years old. Wiki s ...
Topic: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Hatty Replies: 2432 Views: 395487	Forum: British History Posted: 11:34 am Subject: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Hatty Replies: 2432 Views: 395487	The Book of Margery Kempe. The part where Margery (the first woman to write her autobiography in English) goes to meet Julian of Norwich (the first woman to write any sort of book in English). Margery ...
Topic: Legend
Hatty Replies: 251 Views: 46590	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 11:28 am Subject: Legend
Hatty Replies: 251 Views: 46590	Have archaeologists uncovered human remains of barbarians near the wall? They used to believe that Maiden's Castle in Dorset was a killing zone, mainly because Mortimer Wheeler said so, until it becam ...
Topic: Legend
Hatty Replies: 251 Views: 46590	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 3:30 pm Subject: Legend
Hatty Replies: 251 Views: 46590	Hadrian's Wall came up in Digging for Britain (BBC2). I wasn't really paying attention but woke up when someone mentioned that the earliest reference to Hadrian's Wall was in a biography of Hadrian, w ...
Topic: AE on Telly News
Hatty Replies: 1478 Views: 221527	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 5:36 pm Subject: AE on Telly News
Hatty Replies: 1478 Views: 221527	It's turning into the Coen Brothers, Aussie-style.
Topic: Diffusionism
Hatty Replies: 9 Views: 3745	Forum: Pre-History Posted: 9:36 am Subject: Diffusionism
Hatty Replies: 9 Views: 3745	The conclusions reached are based on a relatively small number of samples. Where the samples were found isn't clear, perhaps it was Kent Analyzing DNA from 793 individuals, the investigators disco ...
Topic: Diffusionism
Hatty Replies: 9 Views: 3745	Forum: Pre-History Posted: 8:57 am Subject: Diffusionism
Hatty Replies: 9 Views: 3745	According to Nature, this 'large-scale migration wave from eastern France' originated from the steppes, as usual with 'hordes' By analyzing the degraded DNA from the remains of 400 ancient Europea ...
Topic: AE on Telly News
Hatty Replies: 1478 Views: 221527	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 2:30 pm Subject: AE on Telly News
Hatty Replies: 1478 Views: 221527	Vienna Blood (BBC2) embarked on Series 2 last week and a rather dull affair I thought, but a somewhat unreliable source insisted the second episode was worth watching. It did liven up considerably, br ...