and 'Do you really want to say, as a history student, that that person was ahead of their time?'.

* possibly not b/c we're trusted to do it, actually;
** but not, on reflection, optimistic.

Some historians do sometimes mention philosophy of history to history students... Though maybe the propensity to do that is higher amongst those who also sometimes teach history of philosophy...

Near the start of term, we held a sinking ship debate with our students. Newton was voted the worst person and thrown overboard.

Yes -- it works well for me.

John of Gaunt -- see archive.org/details/kale...

Representative of what? Of the 2024 electorate as a whole, or of the voters for each party?

Meanwhile, YouGov is biased against the Green Party, Plaid, and the SNP.

Yeah, it is awful. But it used to be awful in an attention-capturing way...

You sound like my ex.

Oh dear. Kemi made Katie Lam out of line with party policy retrospectively...

My view: treatises on the sphere came to be seen as cosmographical texts in the sixteenth century, but there's little evidence to suggest that that category would have been applied to Sacrobosco's text when he wrote it. De sphaera was considered an astronomical text.