HeyJaredIn History by Helen Carr
Musings on the past and how we think about it in the present
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The Month In History (opens the original)
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September is, by far, my favourite month of the year. I love routine and though the freedom of summer is joyful, there is nothing better than the promise of a new notebook and renewed motivation. Where I could wax lyrical about the joys of autumn this newsletter is a breakdown of what I have been up to and what I have been thinking about, from the Hereford Mappa Mundi to why I always come back to York as my favourite medieval city, and what is worth seeing there. I also wanted to share some furt
The Bayeux Tapestry: ‘a most barbarous needlework’ that tells the story of 1066 (opens the original)
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In 1738 the English poet John Breval described the Bayeux Tapestry as a ‘most barbarous needlework’. In both aesthetic and moral terms Breval was correct in his acrimonious assertion. The Bayeux Tapestry is rudimentary, it is a wool embroidery stitched onto unbleached linen cloth. It is basic compared to near contemporary delicate gold needlework. The narrative is morally repellent. There are ninety-three penises stitched into the Bayeux Tapestry, so offensive that a nineteenth century re-creati
Road Tripping Around Medieval France (opens the original)
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that summer holidays makes writing pretty impossible. If you have children, that is. I have started about twenty posts in my head, but I have not had the time to put much into actual writing in between canihaveasnack and whatcanidonow. A lengthy Substack article has had to take a back seat recently so I am going to attempt to summarise the first part of this long hot summer in a single newsletter. As I have approximately two and a half hours on board the LN
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