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Lechmere, Rutland, and Cholmondeley – Oh My! (opens the original)
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Robert Walpole has a claim to being the most consequential statesman in Britain’s modern history. He was the first and remains the longest serving of Britain’s prime ministers, despite his abhorrence of the term. As is often said, he created the office. He also possesses a claim to being not simply the first but also the finest prime minister, greater than any of his successors with the possible exception of Sir Winston Churchill. A major reason for this was his appreciation of his main basis of
Bishop-Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster: Ralph Ergham, bishop of Salisbury, 1372-77 (opens the original)
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For most of its history, the chancellorship of the duchy of Lancaster has been held by laymen, normally from a knightly background. More recently, it has been held by great peers of the realm, as has been seen from several of my former posts here and here. and will be seen again in an upcoming one. At least once, however, the post was held by a great churchman or prelate of the realm. This was Ralph Ergham, bishop of Salisbury and eventually bishop of Bath and We
Past Historians on Edward III (opens the original)
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The creation of History as an academic, largely university-based discipline in the second half of the nineteenth century seems to have been immediately caught up in a wave of what we might reasonably call “revisionism.” Perhaps this proves the case advanced by my friend Dr. Jon dell Isola recently. For me, this revisionism was interesting in an English medievalist context, since it manifested in attempts by historians to alter the historical reputation of King Edward III (r. 1327-77). Alter is n
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