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Englishness and folk music from magistra 679 days old
As a follow-up to the last post, I came across an intriguing article on the possibilities of Englishness written by someone called Mike Sutton, who is ...
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Scottishness and Englishness from magistra 680 days old
I don’t normally stand in a car-park at midnight and hear 500 people sing about a medieval king. But then, I’m not normally in Scotland on New Year’s ...
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Reconsidering early medieval and modern Englishness from magistra 1079 days old
[ ... ] on ‘Early Medieval Englishness Reconsidered’. His starting point was that ‘Englishness’ was a relatively recent term in studies of early medieval ...
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Justifiably proud of the fifteenth century? from magistra 1140 days old
I have been reading up on late medieval British history (for a course I’ll be teaching) and so have been trying to come to grips with some of the key ...
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Don't let this Saxon found your settlement! from magistra 1248 days old
I found a wonderful fact out by chance while reading Asser's life of Alfred the Great. Many Anglo-Saxon place-names include the suffixes 'ham' (roughly ...
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Whig history Mark II from magistra 1417 days old
Edwin Jones' book (see last post) had got me thinking again about modern myths of Englishness. I did a piece on this in November, but his comments on ...
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English and Catholic myths from magistra 1417 days old
More holiday reading, though of a rather more academic kind: Edwin Jones, The English Nation: the Great Myth (Sutton Publishing, 1998). This is an interesting ...
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