David Crouch 🏳️🌈
@dbcrouch.bsky.social
Medieval social history. VCH Editor East Yorkshire. Academician. Cardiffian exile. Hwntw Falch. Cymro yn Sir Efrog.
More of un chose Belgique I would say, as several others here suggest. Love the fritteries of Utrecht and Leuven.
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
More of un chose Belgique I would say, as several others here suggest. Love the fritteries of Utrecht and Leuven.
King John’s foster family the Baillebiens got land in Gillingham Dorset from Henry II, not from John himself. John took his foster brother into his household, but sadly the kid died on campaign with him in Ireland. Somehow with John things always go to s**t
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
King John’s foster family the Baillebiens got land in Gillingham Dorset from Henry II, not from John himself. John took his foster brother into his household, but sadly the kid died on campaign with him in Ireland. Somehow with John things always go to s**t
In different ways both are the end of all things
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
In different ways both are the end of all things
Liz even makes a good stab at identifying the author as Eustace de Boulogne, chancellor of Count William (IV) of Warenne. Can't be 100% certain, but it convinces me.
October 29, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Liz even makes a good stab at identifying the author as Eustace de Boulogne, chancellor of Count William (IV) of Warenne. Can't be 100% certain, but it convinces me.
Oddly, what pisses me off are people who spell Llandaff as Llandaf for the sake of 'accuracy', even when they pronounce it with the double-F, and not as 'Llandav'
October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Oddly, what pisses me off are people who spell Llandaff as Llandaf for the sake of 'accuracy', even when they pronounce it with the double-F, and not as 'Llandav'
I'd agree with the striking observation that populism does not fit the description of a coherent ideology, that its roots are in resentment, in which case sociology has more to offer: it looks like a classic instance of a habitus collapsing under hysteresis: new norms provoking hostile reaction
October 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I'd agree with the striking observation that populism does not fit the description of a coherent ideology, that its roots are in resentment, in which case sociology has more to offer: it looks like a classic instance of a habitus collapsing under hysteresis: new norms provoking hostile reaction
12th century popes and Western kings wouldn’t expect ever to meet, which is why legates developed into such important figures and were expected to dress up in papal robes on their missions. Diplomatic cosplay. I don’t think French kings consorted with popes much either. Eugenius III in 1146 maybe.
October 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
12th century popes and Western kings wouldn’t expect ever to meet, which is why legates developed into such important figures and were expected to dress up in papal robes on their missions. Diplomatic cosplay. I don’t think French kings consorted with popes much either. Eugenius III in 1146 maybe.
I wonder that if Reform make inroads in he Welsh Senedd elections, they'll espouse a policy of sending the English back to Jutland and Saxony and reclaim Lloegr from the Saesneg. The Welsh of the 12th century thought it was a vote winner, so run it up the flagpole now Ms Lam has made lunacy normal
October 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I wonder that if Reform make inroads in he Welsh Senedd elections, they'll espouse a policy of sending the English back to Jutland and Saxony and reclaim Lloegr from the Saesneg. The Welsh of the 12th century thought it was a vote winner, so run it up the flagpole now Ms Lam has made lunacy normal
It does give Oberon a convincing context for sure ... though I can't visualise him getting down on the cymbals
October 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
It does give Oberon a convincing context for sure ... though I can't visualise him getting down on the cymbals
I daren’t look at the price OUP will put on it
October 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I daren’t look at the price OUP will put on it
Wow. Memories of Grand Avenue.
October 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Wow. Memories of Grand Avenue.
It is entirely beautiful in real life, the Schatzkammer catalogue’s analysis favours it to have been a Cheapside goldsmith’s of the latter years of Edward III’s reign
October 15, 2025 at 6:43 AM
It is entirely beautiful in real life, the Schatzkammer catalogue’s analysis favours it to have been a Cheapside goldsmith’s of the latter years of Edward III’s reign
Good use for that grand old building, civic Cardiff at its greatest. The first floor reference room was a place a working class teenager from Ely could explore the world of books and chart his way across intellectual horizons under its coffered ceiling via something as mundane as a card catalogue.
October 15, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Good use for that grand old building, civic Cardiff at its greatest. The first floor reference room was a place a working class teenager from Ely could explore the world of books and chart his way across intellectual horizons under its coffered ceiling via something as mundane as a card catalogue.
Called “scratting” in the East Riding and much bemoaned in Victorian school log books for taking kids out of class
October 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Called “scratting” in the East Riding and much bemoaned in Victorian school log books for taking kids out of class
The most amusing thing (of many) in their NYT dialogue was that each was clearly convinced in their sectarian way that the other was damned for all eternity, but were too polite to say it out loud
October 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The most amusing thing (of many) in their NYT dialogue was that each was clearly convinced in their sectarian way that the other was damned for all eternity, but were too polite to say it out loud
The screen in the adjacent Romanesque church has a secular origin and may be another type of fragment of the manor
October 10, 2025 at 8:57 AM
The screen in the adjacent Romanesque church has a secular origin and may be another type of fragment of the manor
And in the week when G-A-Y closed its doors. The old Soho club culture is dying its own natural death, without silly performative evangelicals claiming credit.
October 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
And in the week when G-A-Y closed its doors. The old Soho club culture is dying its own natural death, without silly performative evangelicals claiming credit.
I do hope it closes off that historiographical cul de sac for good and all. It proved only that French historians could be brainwashed as easily as the British by grand narratives, in our case by Oxbridge constitutionalist history, still twitching
October 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
I do hope it closes off that historiographical cul de sac for good and all. It proved only that French historians could be brainwashed as easily as the British by grand narratives, in our case by Oxbridge constitutionalist history, still twitching
The recent VCH volume suggests from extant remains that the Gothic collegiate church was preceded by a major cruciform Romanesque church with stone vaults, the one presided over by the famous historian Roger of Howden as minster head, or ‘persona’ between c.1169 and 1202
September 29, 2025 at 7:03 AM
The recent VCH volume suggests from extant remains that the Gothic collegiate church was preceded by a major cruciform Romanesque church with stone vaults, the one presided over by the famous historian Roger of Howden as minster head, or ‘persona’ between c.1169 and 1202
My German is crap, but "Gefallt aus" was a phrase I was glad I understood on my last visit
September 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
My German is crap, but "Gefallt aus" was a phrase I was glad I understood on my last visit
I remember the damp black dust it deposited on the fields of Mountain Ash comp down the valley
September 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I remember the damp black dust it deposited on the fields of Mountain Ash comp down the valley
Might be makeshift staithes, set in banks of tidal rivers to deflect the ebb rip from undermining the sea bank. A medieval strategy in Yorkshire
September 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Might be makeshift staithes, set in banks of tidal rivers to deflect the ebb rip from undermining the sea bank. A medieval strategy in Yorkshire
Already sold out. They need a bigger venue dammit
September 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Already sold out. They need a bigger venue dammit