Lou Roper
@roperlou.bsky.social
Historian of the Anglophone world in the very long seventeenth century: https://go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq. ORCID 0000-0001-8375-0939 #earlymodern
Reposted by Lou Roper
We are active in 23 English counties.
Most of our projects work with volunteers researching their places, their pasts and rediscovering things their communities had forgotten about.
Take the 'holiday resort of the people', Nanpantan, near Loughborough. 2/n
Most of our projects work with volunteers researching their places, their pasts and rediscovering things their communities had forgotten about.
Take the 'holiday resort of the people', Nanpantan, near Loughborough. 2/n
‘The holiday resort of the people’: Exploring the History of the ‘Community at the Crossroads’ - On History
In this blogpost, Dr Pamela Fisher, County Editor of the Victoria County History (VCH) project in Leicestershire, describes a project on a tiny midland settlement and shows how VCH research engages w...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
We are active in 23 English counties.
Most of our projects work with volunteers researching their places, their pasts and rediscovering things their communities had forgotten about.
Take the 'holiday resort of the people', Nanpantan, near Loughborough. 2/n
Most of our projects work with volunteers researching their places, their pasts and rediscovering things their communities had forgotten about.
Take the 'holiday resort of the people', Nanpantan, near Loughborough. 2/n
'armed 17C Dutch merchantman wrecked in English waters', eh, 'Grotius' (🙄)? Some might say, 'You have appealed to the judgement of Heaven; the Lord has declared against you' @deborahhamer.bsky.social @jorisvdt.bsky.social @bramvanleuveren.bsky.social @henklooijesteijn.bsky.social 🤣
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
'armed 17C Dutch merchantman wrecked in English waters', eh, 'Grotius' (🙄)? Some might say, 'You have appealed to the judgement of Heaven; the Lord has declared against you' @deborahhamer.bsky.social @jorisvdt.bsky.social @bramvanleuveren.bsky.social @henklooijesteijn.bsky.social 🤣
