Histo-Rik Sowden
@historicechoes.bsky.social
Heritage professional, public and living historian, reenactor and historical interpreter. Man of many hats. Probably not a time traveller. Probably. He/Him.
A fab day with Up An' At 'Em History at #Blaenavon for all things early #WW2 and #HomeFront - looking forward to a splendid day with great folks!
August 16, 2025 at 10:58 AM
A fab day with Up An' At 'Em History at #Blaenavon for all things early #WW2 and #HomeFront - looking forward to a splendid day with great folks!
In case you're near the capital tomorrow and want to get your hands on some history, why not join me in Greenwich Park for their #Archaeology Welcome Day where I shall be #Roman all over the place...
www.royalparks.org.uk/wha.../archa...
www.royalparks.org.uk/wha.../archa...
August 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
In case you're near the capital tomorrow and want to get your hands on some history, why not join me in Greenwich Park for their #Archaeology Welcome Day where I shall be #Roman all over the place...
www.royalparks.org.uk/wha.../archa...
www.royalparks.org.uk/wha.../archa...
It's been a fabulous day at the majestic Laugharne Castle for Cadw presenting a #Tudor tournament with Up An' At 'em History - I sadly lost today, so am feeling a bit blue...
June 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It's been a fabulous day at the majestic Laugharne Castle for Cadw presenting a #Tudor tournament with Up An' At 'em History - I sadly lost today, so am feeling a bit blue...
Having a lovely day supporting a Primary History Workshops #WW2 workshop...we are keeping the kids in line (by providing exciting hands-on activities) with a fab afternoon to look forward to!
#Learning #PrimarySchool
#Learning #PrimarySchool
June 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Having a lovely day supporting a Primary History Workshops #WW2 workshop...we are keeping the kids in line (by providing exciting hands-on activities) with a fab afternoon to look forward to!
#Learning #PrimarySchool
#Learning #PrimarySchool
Off to Leicester this weekend for the #Siege380 event...but what should I wear? Tis such an issue when one has a larger c17th wardrobe than a modern day one...
June 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Off to Leicester this weekend for the #Siege380 event...but what should I wear? Tis such an issue when one has a larger c17th wardrobe than a modern day one...
Looking back over last year's #Tudor tournament at @nationaltrust.org.uk Igtham Mote in preparation for next month's outing at Cadw's Laugharne Castle - note to self, make sure to break his spear early on, it is quite the advantage of reach!
May 31, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Looking back over last year's #Tudor tournament at @nationaltrust.org.uk Igtham Mote in preparation for next month's outing at Cadw's Laugharne Castle - note to self, make sure to break his spear early on, it is quite the advantage of reach!
Almost ready to head to the Bosworth Battlefield tomorrow for a day of #Vikings with some histories and stories, shield walls and spears. From Lindisfarne to Stamford Bridge it should be a lot of fun!
May 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Almost ready to head to the Bosworth Battlefield tomorrow for a day of #Vikings with some histories and stories, shield walls and spears. From Lindisfarne to Stamford Bridge it should be a lot of fun!
I am a very lucky sausage - not only do I deliver loads of school workshops, but I get to bring the past alive at amazing museums and fabulous historic sites across the country!
Its #InternationalMuseumsDay today so please consider supporting your local museums - which is your favourite?
Its #InternationalMuseumsDay today so please consider supporting your local museums - which is your favourite?
May 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I am a very lucky sausage - not only do I deliver loads of school workshops, but I get to bring the past alive at amazing museums and fabulous historic sites across the country!
Its #InternationalMuseumsDay today so please consider supporting your local museums - which is your favourite?
Its #InternationalMuseumsDay today so please consider supporting your local museums - which is your favourite?
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This!
Call for Contributors!
@michaelwdurrant.bsky.social and Cynthia Johnson are co-editing a new Routledge Companion to Book Studies, and are seeking chapter proposals!
Deadline: 30 September 2025
More info here 👇
ies.sas.ac.uk/news/call-co...
@michaelwdurrant.bsky.social and Cynthia Johnson are co-editing a new Routledge Companion to Book Studies, and are seeking chapter proposals!
Deadline: 30 September 2025
More info here 👇
ies.sas.ac.uk/news/call-co...
Call for Contributors: Routledge Companion to Book Studies
Call for ContributorsThe Routledge Companion to Book StudiesEdited by Michael Durrant and Cynthia Johnston Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
ies.sas.ac.uk
May 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This!
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This late 15th-century armor for jousting in the Worcester Art Museum shows how helmets were devised this way to deflect lance blows. This guy caught many, and lingering dents tell a story of tournaments in steel. Pretty amazing to see today.
May 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This late 15th-century armor for jousting in the Worcester Art Museum shows how helmets were devised this way to deflect lance blows. This guy caught many, and lingering dents tell a story of tournaments in steel. Pretty amazing to see today.
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Fellow #Renaissance #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks #skystorians,
what would you list as the key highlights of early modern book history? Think printing innovations, landmark publications, shifts in literacy, censorship etc.
Curious to hear your (especially lesser-known) takes!
💙📚📜
what would you list as the key highlights of early modern book history? Think printing innovations, landmark publications, shifts in literacy, censorship etc.
Curious to hear your (especially lesser-known) takes!
💙📚📜
May 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Fellow #Renaissance #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks #skystorians,
what would you list as the key highlights of early modern book history? Think printing innovations, landmark publications, shifts in literacy, censorship etc.
Curious to hear your (especially lesser-known) takes!
💙📚📜
what would you list as the key highlights of early modern book history? Think printing innovations, landmark publications, shifts in literacy, censorship etc.
Curious to hear your (especially lesser-known) takes!
💙📚📜
It's #Victorians at Cadw Blaenavon Ironworks, with a fabulous site and lovely folks - including the delicious Ragged Victorians - it's well worth a visit!
May 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
It's #Victorians at Cadw Blaenavon Ironworks, with a fabulous site and lovely folks - including the delicious Ragged Victorians - it's well worth a visit!
Fun day teaching year 3s about #RomanBritain, with many recruited for the Legions...
I got to take part in the Making Marvellous Mosaics session too - and made a mini Marcus! What do you think? Should I stick to the day job, or is there a possible career in mosaic making ahead?
I got to take part in the Making Marvellous Mosaics session too - and made a mini Marcus! What do you think? Should I stick to the day job, or is there a possible career in mosaic making ahead?
May 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Fun day teaching year 3s about #RomanBritain, with many recruited for the Legions...
I got to take part in the Making Marvellous Mosaics session too - and made a mini Marcus! What do you think? Should I stick to the day job, or is there a possible career in mosaic making ahead?
I got to take part in the Making Marvellous Mosaics session too - and made a mini Marcus! What do you think? Should I stick to the day job, or is there a possible career in mosaic making ahead?
It's #Vikings with Primary History Workshops today, so lots of object handling, storytelling, games, runes, and most important of all is lists of hands-on fun!
May 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM
It's #Vikings with Primary History Workshops today, so lots of object handling, storytelling, games, runes, and most important of all is lists of hands-on fun!
We have completed two of three runs of @thekeyofdreams.co.uk and before I reset ready for the third and final show this month I thought it right to introduce, very briefly, two important characters among our cast and in our stories...
April 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
We have completed two of three runs of @thekeyofdreams.co.uk and before I reset ready for the third and final show this month I thought it right to introduce, very briefly, two important characters among our cast and in our stories...
Ready for the second run of the Key of Dreams - the first run was just fab, with super guests and stories aplenty, so looking forward to finding out what the next twenty four hours will bring...
April 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Ready for the second run of the Key of Dreams - the first run was just fab, with super guests and stories aplenty, so looking forward to finding out what the next twenty four hours will bring...
On Tuesday I was lucky enough to be invited to take a journey through the #Brumhole to talk with folks from other Birminghams across the world to promote Joe Lycett's #TheUnitedStatesOfBirmingham
Always lovely to promote Aston Hall, and it was just a lovely day!
Always lovely to promote Aston Hall, and it was just a lovely day!
April 25, 2025 at 7:34 AM
On Tuesday I was lucky enough to be invited to take a journey through the #Brumhole to talk with folks from other Birminghams across the world to promote Joe Lycett's #TheUnitedStatesOfBirmingham
Always lovely to promote Aston Hall, and it was just a lovely day!
Always lovely to promote Aston Hall, and it was just a lovely day!
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Not only this — and this is a big deal — but how on earth will the police ensure that male officers won’t be allowed to search cis women who look a bit butch and can’t prove they’re women?
if I understand correctly, the campaigners wanted (in their words) to stop trans women officers with a gender recognition certificate searching women.
and, in response, the police have decided to allow male officers to search trans women.
not sustainable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
and, in response, the police have decided to allow male officers to search trans women.
not sustainable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Trans women arrested on Britain’s railways to be strip-searched by male officers
British Transport Police amends policy in light of supreme court’s landmark ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
April 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Not only this — and this is a big deal — but how on earth will the police ensure that male officers won’t be allowed to search cis women who look a bit butch and can’t prove they’re women?
Stronghold Reenactment will be visiting Avoncroft Museum of Buildings for a #MedievalMayDay so join them at my sometimes-workplace on Sunday 4th and Monday 5th May - tickets available on the door, or order in advance (also the tearoom does amazing cake).
avoncroft.org.uk/product/may-...
avoncroft.org.uk/product/may-...
April 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Stronghold Reenactment will be visiting Avoncroft Museum of Buildings for a #MedievalMayDay so join them at my sometimes-workplace on Sunday 4th and Monday 5th May - tickets available on the door, or order in advance (also the tearoom does amazing cake).
avoncroft.org.uk/product/may-...
avoncroft.org.uk/product/may-...
I'm gearing up for a return to Wales for a fortnight at Treowen with the #KeyOfDreams - we've three runs this time (I think there are a couple of last minute tickets available still), and I'm looking forward to meeting up with some really fab folks!
April 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I'm gearing up for a return to Wales for a fortnight at Treowen with the #KeyOfDreams - we've three runs this time (I think there are a couple of last minute tickets available still), and I'm looking forward to meeting up with some really fab folks!
It's food with a sixteenth century bent at Hasland Village Hall for Chesterfield 'museum on the move', with Up An' At 'Em History - lovely and tasty stuff!
April 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
It's food with a sixteenth century bent at Hasland Village Hall for Chesterfield 'museum on the move', with Up An' At 'Em History - lovely and tasty stuff!
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Dire: historians of 17th century absolutism “please don’t make our expertise relevant!”
Tired: historians of the Great Depression saying "please don't make our expertise relevant!"
Wired: historians of the Panic of 1893 saying "please don't make our expertise relevant!"
Wired: historians of the Panic of 1893 saying "please don't make our expertise relevant!"
There's something weird happening where The Discourse about the tariffs is about how Trump is trying to return us to 1950's and 1960's, the manufacturing heyday of America, but he's not! He' been very very explicit about this. He wants to return us to the 1890's. That's a different project!
April 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Dire: historians of 17th century absolutism “please don’t make our expertise relevant!”
It's the last #ThreeLittlePigs storytelling and buildings day for this month at Avoncroft Museum of Buildings and it's a beautiful day with a great school.
Up the windmill this afternoon!
Up the windmill this afternoon!
April 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
It's the last #ThreeLittlePigs storytelling and buildings day for this month at Avoncroft Museum of Buildings and it's a beautiful day with a great school.
Up the windmill this afternoon!
Up the windmill this afternoon!
What was a Yeoman Warder of Henry VIII doing at Raglan Castle? Now there is a very good question - what does a unique castle in Wales have to do with the Tudor dynasty - and why was it raining on the day I was there?!
April 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
What was a Yeoman Warder of Henry VIII doing at Raglan Castle? Now there is a very good question - what does a unique castle in Wales have to do with the Tudor dynasty - and why was it raining on the day I was there?!
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Women played an important role in policing 13th-century England. Women couldn't be in frankpledge or sit on juries, but they were still required to raise the hue & cry, they chased criminals when need be, and were required to attend trials when they witnessed crime or discovered bodies. 🧵1/5
March 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Women played an important role in policing 13th-century England. Women couldn't be in frankpledge or sit on juries, but they were still required to raise the hue & cry, they chased criminals when need be, and were required to attend trials when they witnessed crime or discovered bodies. 🧵1/5