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University of York to host conference on English physician John Snow
Posted on February 27, 2013 | No CommentsThe University of York is inviting the local community to join a special event commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Snow. -
Wicked Women of Tudor England: Queens, Aristocrats, Commoners
Posted on February 16, 2013 | No CommentsThis fascinating and occasionally salacious historical study delves into the lives of six Tudor women celebrated for their reputed wickedness. -
Early Modern England – Politics
Posted on February 1, 2013 | No CommentsAndrew Bretz, who teaches English theatre and history at the University of Guelph and Wilfrid Laurier University, created a series of videos for his undergraduate student in 2012. -
The Damnation Of John Donellan
Posted on January 24, 2013 | No CommentsIn August 1780 Sir Theodosius Boughton, a dissolute Old Etonian twenty-year-old and heir to a Warwickshire fortune, died in painful convulsions after taking his medicine. The following year after an inquest and trial which became a cause celebre, his brother-in-law, Captain John'Diamond'Donellan, Irish soldier of fortune and man about town, was tried for his murder -
Turncoats and Renegadoes: Treachery and Traitors during the English Civil Wars
Posted on January 4, 2013 | No CommentsThe practice does much to illuminate 17th-century perceptions of honour whilst the justifications employed by the turncoats themselves reveal how they sought to defend their reputations with their contemporaries or for posterity. -
The History of English in Ten Minutes
Posted on December 26, 2012 | No CommentsWhere did the phrase ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’ come from? And when did scientists finally get round to naming sexual body parts?
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