Recent acquisitions:
📖 Richard II and the Revolution of 1399 by Michael Bennett
📖 Prodigal Father: The Life of John Butler Yeats (1839-1922) by William F. Murphy [recommended by Colm Toíbín in his book Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, which I enjoyed]
#fREADom #UniteAgainstBookBans
August 4 #BookBinge Impulse Read Sometime I find books at family homes where I go I should read this lol. This was my last Impulse Read I found at my daughter Renee's house. It was good. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
pickI just saw this book and decided why not. I love British history. I bogled my mind how bloody this event was. I also found two bingo spots on #ISpyBingoJune @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks
I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join in if you want!
#ABookADay2023
I always enjoy Barker's books because I geek out over historiographical controversies and she does such a good job of evaluating every side of a historical question and laying out all the evidence. Here she argues that during the Peasants' Revolt John Ball never actually gave the famed Blackheath speech that is the centerpiece of most accounts of the uprising.
Enjoying a quiet morning with hot coffee and an interesting mystery.
so-soBond Men Made Free is all about providing context for the Wat Tyler Riot: so much context, context that reaches back a couple of centuries and extends across Europe. But he devotes a scant 7 pages devoted to the riots themselves. A lot of what Hilton has to say here is interesting -- he has a particular interest in social class -- and I'm glad I read the book. But I wished to learn a little more about the uprising itself.
I may be the only person out there who has yet to see Game of Thrones or read the books! I actually had to look up #RainesOfCastamere to see to what it refers!
When I think Game of Thrones, I think bloodbaths, the constant vying for power. Dan Jones is a leading expert on all things British royalty in the Medieval times, leading up to the rise of the Tudors. Here is one of his works, discussing the English Revolution of 1381. #SoaringScores
See Hank, the supernatural will get you when you do unnatural things. 😏
#EdWest #MyKingdomForAHorse #history #englishhistory #snarkyhistory #henryiv #shakespearskings #haunted #richardii
Doesn‘t seem so delirious now, does he?!
#EdWest #MyKingdomForAHorse #history #englishhistory #snarkyhistory #RichardII #heknewwhatwasup
