Jonathan Healey
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Social historian at Oxford University. Northerner. Now mostly with the butterfly: @ and on the Gram: jonathanhealey1647
Kellogg College, Oxford
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Out six months today! Eek!
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The Earl of Southampton, painted in 1603, with his lawyer.
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Historical generals pointing out the toilets: a short thread.
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Happy Birthday to Anders Celsius, born
#otd
1701. He died in 1744 aged 42, although his great rival Fahrenheit thought he was 108.
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'Many Bothans died, to bring us this information.
Although ironically the Emperor's son just tweeted all of it anyway.'
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As the passengers obsess over this iceberg, they're missing our fantastic new deckchair arrangement.
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The North of England really is stunningly beautiful, isn’t it?
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TELL THAT TO BOATY MCBOATFACE, BRENDAN
If we have another referendum in which Remain is an option on the ballot paper, it would be the first time in the history of British democracy that the British people voted for something and it didn't happen, says Brendan O'Neill
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Academics:
'WHAT DO WE WANT?' - 'Actual evidence of the problem you're saying is widespread.'
'WHEN DO WE WANT IT?' - 'Some time before you create a new policy based on the existence of that problem.'
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'And how long did you spend in the non-essential aisle?'
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Amazing entry from Pepys’ diary, 23 April 1667: ‘Just gave my name in ye Coffee Shoppe as “No Poperie”. When ye (presbyterian) Wench screamed my name repeatedly, ye whole room erupted in boisterous huzzahs. Result. Try it. And so to bed.’
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‘The Year of Our Lorde 1665 hath been such a terrible one for ye plague. I cannot wait for 1666, for which I have especial excitement to trye the newe bakery that hath opened on Pudding Lane.’
Samuel Pepys, Diary Entry, 31 December 1665.
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I’m not saying Toby Young is the worst person for this job, but he’s in the bottom one.
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Obviously extremely bad form to tweet typos from student essays, but one just accidentally referred to the great Marxist historian of the 17th century Brian Manning as 'Bernard Manning' and I'm afraid I had to share.
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Extremely rude of academia to insist that we develop 'arguments' and 'ideas' rather than simply gather tasty anecdotes from the archives and publish them.
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Haha. Our neighbours just accidentally connected the porn film they were watching to one of our Bluetooth speakers.
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A group of historians broadly agreeing about a topic.
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When one of your bookshelves is *really* overloaded.
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In Colchester (Essex) in the 1520s, there was a man who went by the name of ‘Sir John Fucksmaster’. He was of questionable repute.
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Someone just emailed the whole Oxford History Faculty calling us 'servants of Satan', with a load of Biblical quotes. Made my evening.
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Tax avoidance, 17th century style. The Bridge House, Ambleside - built on a river between two jurisdictions.
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This is amazing - an Indian figurine, dating to the 1st century CE, found in Roman Pompeii.
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Obviously I’m not going to open these as if I do I’ll immediately find some blundering typo, but I have to say the team at
@BloomsburyBooks
have made the thing look very nice indeed.
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Me at the beginning of 1649 vs me at the end of 1649.
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‘I hear the Palace of Westminster is very beautiful. We should visit it as tourists.’
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Worst Welsh performance against the Danes since the Vikings raided Anglesey in 918.
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Sad to report that the secluded spot in the park where people normally take drugs is now being used for illicit personal training sessions.
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Leclerc is cross, and thinks you should have gone before the battle started.
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The Four Seasons thing might be the funniest political fall from grace since James II got his underpants searched by a Kentish fisherman in 1688.
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‘Yes, it’s all terribly interesting Dr Luther, but do you suppose it will have Impact?’
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My new favourite historical person is this lady pretending to be VERY SHOCKED at a dildo stall in 1680.
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'Queck'
(BL, Add 49622, f. 190v. The Gorleston Psalter. 1310-1324)
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The thing is, Mark Rylance, is that no-one who had *any* knowledge of 16th/17th century England could think a hereditary earl was more capable of writing Shakespeare's plays than a middling sort townsman.
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Here's the full list of jobs George Osborne's recorded as doing in the 1881 census.
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The Earl of Oxford, by the way, is someone whose greatest contribution to English culture was this anecdote (from Aubrey’s Brief Lives):
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According to Jan Morris this is the oldest door in Oxford.
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Tudor History has been colonised by young academics with no experience of Tudoring.
“Military History has been colonised by young academics with no experience of soldiering.”
@allan_mallinson
#RUSILWC
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Wooaaah. The last thing we need right now is kick all that off again.
Henry VII had a very very tenuous claim to the English throne.
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@jotis13
@AnnaAnthro
I was struck recently by reading how (wealthy) 17th century Londoners would pay close attention to the Bills of Mortality so as to make informed decisions as to when to flee town. Made me think of the way data reading has been central to our current experience.
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Seeing as this thread now exists, I suppose we historians need to respond. The history of the poor is important, and we owe it to the historical poor to do it right.
Make no mistake about it, Britain had gulags. They were called workhouses.
After the 1830s, as Britain's elite oversaw the transition to a market economy, outdoor relief for the poor was scrapped - meaning hundreds of thousands entered the work house over the following decades.
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I have a wee idea. A website with database of historians prepared to talk to state schools for free, searchable by topics and locality. Wonder how I can make this happen?
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In 1641, the poet John Taylor engaged in a literary spat with the preacher Henry Walker.
Keeping things classy, Taylor published an image of Walker being discharged from the devil's anus (L), to which Walker responded with a picture of the devil shitting in Taylor's mouth (R).
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Happy
#NationalChocolateCakeDay
#Cake
Fact
Oliver Cromwell banned the eating of chocolate cake in 1644, declaring it a pagan form of pleasure. For 16 years, cake eating and making went underground until the Restoration leaders lifted the ban on cake in 1660.
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Well since Jo Johnson has decided to ruin Boxing Day, let’s have a little think about this article in the Times.
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Would it be bad, in the context of Serious History Writing, to describe Edward Montague, First Earl of Sandwich, as having been 'on a roll'?
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Keppel is concerned that the toilets are quite some distance away and you look like you might be desperate.
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Anthony wants Cleopatra to know that whilst weeing in a nearby pot is fine, there are also perfectly good toilets in the next room, and they have nice Molton Brown soap.
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This list of radical women preachers in London from a 1641 pamphlet is fantastic:
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Frederick the Great suggests that you go behind that bush over there.
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Almost certainly the greatest opening to a mini-biography in the whole of History.
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Well, I am officially no longer the shoutiest person in the household.
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During the Black Death of 1381, Isaac Newton stayed at home and worked out the Earth was round.
What will you achieve this year?
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So I checked with the Bod. In the 5 years after your DPhil you published 4 books. The book of your thesis, and books of 28, 194 and 6 pages.
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And people say Oxbridge should be abolished.
“Without UCL, the members of
#Coldplay
would never have met”, says
@compuniguide
2018 which ranks UCL 7th in UK
#TBT
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Kleber is suspicious that you might actually need a poo, and wants you to go a long way away from him.
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Wolfe enjoys opera, and wishes to be dramatic when pointing out the loos.
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Ladies, if he:
- Never texts back
- Never watches your Insta story
- believes the world is flat
- has no idea about science
- regularly burns witches
- dies aged 35 of the plague
That's not your man, that's a Dark Age peasant.
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Merry Christmas to everyone except those historians I have slight disagreements with.
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Lovely photo. To the left of the shot you can glimpse the River Can, from which Canada takes its name.
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Dude, you literally work in a palace.
#realworldacademic
Personally, never thought of academics as 'experts'. No experience of the real world.
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Appalling 20th century novelty here from Rees-Mogg. Everyone knows the title of ‘Esquire’ should only be used for the eldest sons of the younger sons of peers, the eldest sons of baronets and knights, and senior officers of the Crown.
Exclusive from
@itvnews
The new Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg has instructed all staff in his new office to use imperial measurements and refer to ‘non-titled males’ as ‘esquire’.
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Since the words 'Tory' and 'Whig' both started as insults, I fully expect British politics to soon be contested between the Gammon Party and the Melt Party.
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‘Some monasteries were dissolved, but I don’t think I was involved.’
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I know I shouldn’t brag about my party lifestyle, but it’s 10.30 on a Friday night, and I’m at home voting in a twitter poll about medieval cathedrals.
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‘Ye worste aspect of the plague so far hath beene the antiquarians who, suddenlye possessed with the belief they understande ye natural sciences, have been spoutinge off their pens, thinking they can perceive the causes of our lamentable contagion.’
Pepys, 25 March 1665.
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Don't look now, but I think we just discovered Palmerston the Foreign Office cat in a 17th century painting.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg has wished England the best of luck in tonight’s match in Königsberg against the Spanish Netherlands.
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So there’s a Daily Mail hatchet job on a number of my colleagues today. I don’t know everyone in it, but I know a few of them, and here’s some of the things they didn’t mention.
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Because I like data, here's the share of the electorate who voted for Labour since 1950:
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Honestly, these days you can’t even go around the world fighting in imperialist wars in service of an empire without being called an imperialist.
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‘Unfilmable’ Books That Hollywood Should Try to Adapt After ‘Dune’
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Here's something nerdy and wonderful. On the right, an English recipe for roast meat from 1683. It includes 'half a Spoonful of Ketchup'. It's the earliest printed use of 'ketchup' in English as a proper loanword (from Malay).
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I assume there's already a German word for when you don't actually watch Dr Who, but you love how much the broflakes are gonna hate this.
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Happy Birthday to Henry IV and Taylor Swift, born
#otd
1553 and 1989. One is a famously slick political operator, able to compromise their ideological principles for gain, the other is a king of France.
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To Reviewer Two: NEVER, EVER ASK ME TO CLARIFY MY ARGUMENT AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. I AM NO LONGER A HISTORIAN WHO WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF MINOR REVISION. BE CAUTIOUS!
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In the 13th century, the Chinese government banned trade with Java, so Javanese merchants started to claim they were from ‘Sukadana’, a place they had made up.
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‘It is proposed that in REF 2029, the metric for research impact will be the number of times work appears in Charlotte Gill tweets.’
Always wanted to know more about this. Sound £879,525 taxpayer investment.
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There are currently only two types of History:
1. History that is like Game of Thrones.
2. History that caused Brexit.
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'ACTUALLY, OLIVER CROMWELL DIDN'T BAN CHRISTMAS. IT WAS ABOLISHED BY PARLIAMENTARY ORDINANCE IN 1644.'
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Puritans celebrating their A-level results in 1627.
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Idea: the Bad History Awards. Given every year to public figures who have committed crimes against the past. The award could be in the shape of a horned Viking helmet, or a Cromwell-shaped pie.
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The Restoration happened
#OnThisDay
in 1660. But, as this picture shows, it was only possible because Charles II threatened the country with a stick and a thermal detonator.
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This is literally the opposite of how the UK was formed.
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Actually most of the Communist Manifesto was written by the Earl of Oxford.
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Good to see the Guardian correctly using the term ‘Dark Ages’ for the 14th century. So little is known about the period that historians are forced to rely on the immense corpus of surviving material to shed any light on it at all.
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Guys, I think I just managed to spell 'bourgeois' correctly at the first attempt for the first time ever.
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During the English Civil War, the town of Newark had a governor called Sir Dick Willys. This fact is even better when you realise what ‘Newark’ is an anagram of.
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Met four lads in the Rose and Crown whose round was four whiskies, four cups of tea, and four sticky toffee puddings. Top tier behaviour.
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