David Crouch 🏳️🌈
@dbcrouch.bsky.social
Medieval social history. VCH Editor East Yorkshire. Academician. Cardiffian exile. Hwntw Falch. Cymro yn Sir Efrog.
The Guardian did not disappoint with its report of the Plaid Cyrmu (sic) victory in Caerphilly. In one thing constant ever Grauniad
October 24, 2025 at 4:46 AM
The Guardian did not disappoint with its report of the Plaid Cyrmu (sic) victory in Caerphilly. In one thing constant ever Grauniad
On Thursday, the remarkable north porch door of Kilnwick Percy church. The dilapidated church was reconstructed in an elaborate neo-Romanesque style in 1864–5 to designs by J.B. & W. Atkinson for Arthur Duncombe, and this door was shifted from the south side to the new north porch facing the Hall.
September 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
On Thursday, the remarkable north porch door of Kilnwick Percy church. The dilapidated church was reconstructed in an elaborate neo-Romanesque style in 1864–5 to designs by J.B. & W. Atkinson for Arthur Duncombe, and this door was shifted from the south side to the new north porch facing the Hall.
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The core role of the university in society is the generational transmission of knowledge and rare skills. This has been already long forgotten by administrators who have prioritised rebranding universities as publicly-funded job-training centres in recent decades.
3 crucial roles for the university: to preserve, transmit, and create knowledge.
This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
August 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The core role of the university in society is the generational transmission of knowledge and rare skills. This has been already long forgotten by administrators who have prioritised rebranding universities as publicly-funded job-training centres in recent decades.
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Coming out this week, Lindy Grant's definitive revisionist biography of a Queen all too often obscured by literary and cultural myth.
August 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Coming out this week, Lindy Grant's definitive revisionist biography of a Queen all too often obscured by literary and cultural myth.
Coming out this week, Lindy Grant's definitive revisionist biography of a Queen all too often obscured by literary and cultural myth.
August 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Coming out this week, Lindy Grant's definitive revisionist biography of a Queen all too often obscured by literary and cultural myth.
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*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*
July 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*
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BREAKING: Citizens of Heard and McDonald islands have issued a statement after trump's 10% tariff.
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#canada #canadastrong #elbowsup #markcarneyforpm #cdnpoli #voteliberal #tariffs #tradewar #neverpoilievre #never51state #buycanadian #supportlocal
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#canada #canadastrong #elbowsup #markcarneyforpm #cdnpoli #voteliberal #tariffs #tradewar #neverpoilievre #never51state #buycanadian #supportlocal
April 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
BREAKING: Citizens of Heard and McDonald islands have issued a statement after trump's 10% tariff.
❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️
#canada #canadastrong #elbowsup #markcarneyforpm #cdnpoli #voteliberal #tariffs #tradewar #neverpoilievre #never51state #buycanadian #supportlocal
❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️
#canada #canadastrong #elbowsup #markcarneyforpm #cdnpoli #voteliberal #tariffs #tradewar #neverpoilievre #never51state #buycanadian #supportlocal
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Our open letter response to the #USCommerceDept and #POTUS
April 3, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Our open letter response to the #USCommerceDept and #POTUS
With its spotlight on the ‘manosphere’, Adolescence begs the question: how do we raise good men?
Ours is not the first human generation to confront this dynamic. The Middle Ages constructed the ‘preudomme’ as the ideal to which a boy should aspire. Vide Ruth Karras’s marvellous *From Boys to Men*
Ours is not the first human generation to confront this dynamic. The Middle Ages constructed the ‘preudomme’ as the ideal to which a boy should aspire. Vide Ruth Karras’s marvellous *From Boys to Men*
March 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
With its spotlight on the ‘manosphere’, Adolescence begs the question: how do we raise good men?
Ours is not the first human generation to confront this dynamic. The Middle Ages constructed the ‘preudomme’ as the ideal to which a boy should aspire. Vide Ruth Karras’s marvellous *From Boys to Men*
Ours is not the first human generation to confront this dynamic. The Middle Ages constructed the ‘preudomme’ as the ideal to which a boy should aspire. Vide Ruth Karras’s marvellous *From Boys to Men*
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😂 Joke outside a cafe in London.
March 18, 2025 at 8:34 AM
😂 Joke outside a cafe in London.
St Peter’s church Woodmansey. Pass it most days and this weekend the door was open. Neat little church of around 1896 built by the local manorial lord. The font’s the surprise. Genuinely 14thC. Pevsner says ‘where is it from?’. Good question Sir Nikolas
March 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
St Peter’s church Woodmansey. Pass it most days and this weekend the door was open. Neat little church of around 1896 built by the local manorial lord. The font’s the surprise. Genuinely 14thC. Pevsner says ‘where is it from?’. Good question Sir Nikolas
Medieval-blaming is so very Guardian. Always when leasehold is condemned, it is as a 'feudal era' system. I wish someone would call this out. I know that quitrents turn up in 12th-century (urban) London. But full on leasing of parcels of land with entry fines and annual rents is quite late
March 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Medieval-blaming is so very Guardian. Always when leasehold is condemned, it is as a 'feudal era' system. I wish someone would call this out. I know that quitrents turn up in 12th-century (urban) London. But full on leasing of parcels of land with entry fines and annual rents is quite late
Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
No second state visit for Trump
This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...
you.38degrees.org.uk
February 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
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An old favorite:
Roses are red
Gender’s performative
Valentine’s Day
Is heteronormative.
Roses are red
Gender’s performative
Valentine’s Day
Is heteronormative.
February 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM
An old favorite:
Roses are red
Gender’s performative
Valentine’s Day
Is heteronormative.
Roses are red
Gender’s performative
Valentine’s Day
Is heteronormative.
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Bonus episode out now. @colinveach.bsky.social talks in more detail about the contemporary written sources justifying the 'Anglo-Norman Invasion' and we reflect on modern scholars' approaches to 12th century Irish history. Gerald of Wales, Laudabiliter & more! open.spotify.com/episode/5Zmp...
Bonus episode: Interpreting the 'Anglo-Norman' Invasion with Dr Colin Veach
The Medieval Irish History Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
February 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Bonus episode out now. @colinveach.bsky.social talks in more detail about the contemporary written sources justifying the 'Anglo-Norman Invasion' and we reflect on modern scholars' approaches to 12th century Irish history. Gerald of Wales, Laudabiliter & more! open.spotify.com/episode/5Zmp...
Very sad news. The eminent French medievalist, Martin Aurell died last night unexpectedly. His students and colleagues at Poitiers are in shock, unsurprisingly. Martin's contributions to Anglo-French history were enormous, and his generosity with advice and sources unbounding.
February 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Very sad news. The eminent French medievalist, Martin Aurell died last night unexpectedly. His students and colleagues at Poitiers are in shock, unsurprisingly. Martin's contributions to Anglo-French history were enormous, and his generosity with advice and sources unbounding.
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If you're working on Yorkshire's past (medieval or otherwise), please do consider submitting a paper for this year's @roysociety.bsky.social conference, held in the Concert Hall at Scarborough library on Friday 6th June.
If you've got any questions, we're very happy to answer them!
If you've got any questions, we're very happy to answer them!
We're delighted to announce that this year's ROYS conference will be held at Scarborough Library, on Friday 6th June 2025.
We're seeking papers on any element of Yorkshire's past for the conference, now in its fourth year. Our full call for papers can be found below 👇
We're seeking papers on any element of Yorkshire's past for the conference, now in its fourth year. Our full call for papers can be found below 👇
February 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
If you're working on Yorkshire's past (medieval or otherwise), please do consider submitting a paper for this year's @roysociety.bsky.social conference, held in the Concert Hall at Scarborough library on Friday 6th June.
If you've got any questions, we're very happy to answer them!
If you've got any questions, we're very happy to answer them!
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For anyone who is interested in helping, there's a rare 6/7th c. garnet-inset gold dress accessory up for UK export very soon; if £4k is raised before the end of March, it will go to a burgeoning local museum in Pocklington, East Yorks.
www.gofundme.com/f/save-a-poc...
www.gofundme.com/f/save-a-poc...
Donate to Save a Pocklington Anglo Saxon artefact from export, organised by Andrew Sefton
A temporary export bar has been placed on a rare Anglo-Saxon, Gold a… Andrew Sefton needs your support for Save a Pocklington Anglo Saxon artefact from export
www.gofundme.com
January 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
For anyone who is interested in helping, there's a rare 6/7th c. garnet-inset gold dress accessory up for UK export very soon; if £4k is raised before the end of March, it will go to a burgeoning local museum in Pocklington, East Yorks.
www.gofundme.com/f/save-a-poc...
www.gofundme.com/f/save-a-poc...
One result of Methodism's great age in 19th-century Yorkshire was the number of Wesleyan schools founded in its towns. Methodist children could thus escape the compulsory catechism and church attendance enforced by Anglican National Society Schools. This is the Pocklington Wesleyan School (1852)
January 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
One result of Methodism's great age in 19th-century Yorkshire was the number of Wesleyan schools founded in its towns. Methodist children could thus escape the compulsory catechism and church attendance enforced by Anglican National Society Schools. This is the Pocklington Wesleyan School (1852)
Graham Loud's new biography of Frederick is published on 1 February by Reaktion, and at the bargain price of £16.95. It's designed as an accessible teaching book rather than an academic 'door-stopper' as he puts it, which sets it apart from previous volumes.
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/frederi...
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/frederi...
January 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Graham Loud's new biography of Frederick is published on 1 February by Reaktion, and at the bargain price of £16.95. It's designed as an accessible teaching book rather than an academic 'door-stopper' as he puts it, which sets it apart from previous volumes.
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/frederi...
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/frederi...
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Well this sucks. Museum caves in in response to a hostile article in the local press written by a former Restore Trust director.
If you’re gonna have these initiatives at your museum, you need to have some backbone too.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If you’re gonna have these initiatives at your museum, you need to have some backbone too.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
King's Lynn museum pulls out of LGBTQ+ history trail
Concerns from volunteers and stakeholders lead to the decision to withdraw from the project.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Well this sucks. Museum caves in in response to a hostile article in the local press written by a former Restore Trust director.
If you’re gonna have these initiatives at your museum, you need to have some backbone too.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If you’re gonna have these initiatives at your museum, you need to have some backbone too.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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After all, it was German people seeing their Jewish friends and neighbours being abused by the Nazis that led to an upsurge in pro-Jewish feeling and staved off what could have turned into a holocaust.
What the fuck?
January 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
After all, it was German people seeing their Jewish friends and neighbours being abused by the Nazis that led to an upsurge in pro-Jewish feeling and staved off what could have turned into a holocaust.
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Living for this Cardiff Council gritter lorry’s name this evening. Da iawn, Caerdydd 👏
January 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Living for this Cardiff Council gritter lorry’s name this evening. Da iawn, Caerdydd 👏
When and where was King John born? When is more easy to say than where. The year was either 1166 or 1167, according to which Angevin historian you read. Ralph Diceto, Dean of London, said baldly it was 1166, but one copy of the work of the annalist Robert de Torigny, listed it under 1167. 1/9
December 28, 2024 at 7:54 AM
When and where was King John born? When is more easy to say than where. The year was either 1166 or 1167, according to which Angevin historian you read. Ralph Diceto, Dean of London, said baldly it was 1166, but one copy of the work of the annalist Robert de Torigny, listed it under 1167. 1/9