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AHRC-funded project rethinking Scottish Wars of Independence

Unis Glasgow, Lancaster, KCL
Joined March 2013
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First significant outcome of MoA: major article by Dauvit Broun on statehood. Read for free at euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10…
Palaeographical question of the day: can biting occur when an ascender has no teeth? H/t @Stewart_Brookes
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Hearing Davie Broun on #MakingHistory is bringing back lovely memories of working on @BreakofBritain breakingofbritain.ac.uk/blog…
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Sneak peek of the new text editing tool for Models of Authority. Exciting stuff & this is only the beginning.
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Thank you, Camley, for a wee cartoon that sums up #georgesquare so much better than all our words.
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Just arrived in the post! DAC's Magna Carta - on general release 1 January @PenguinClassics amazon.co.uk/Magna-Carta-Pen…
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Well, this is it. The journey begins for Models of Authority! Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be exciting ;-)
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So, what did you make of episode 1 of Prof. Robert Bartlett's #Plantagenets ? Here's our review, by @KatyDutton magnacartaresearch.blogspot.…
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FREE conference: Personal Names & Naming Practices Medieval Scotland @GlasgowUni 15 March feat. members BoB & PoMs eventbrite.co.uk/e/personal-…
& of course booze: 20 tuns of ordinary wine (French & Gascon) & 4 tuns of the best stuff for King John's own table magnacartaresearch.blogspot.…
Along with 50 pounds pepper, 2 pounds saffron, 100 pounds almonds, 15000 herrings, 10000 salted eels magnacartaresearch.blogspot.…
In 1213 John ordered c.400 pig heads for his Christmas feast ay Windsor castle magnacartaresearch.blogspot.…
New blog post: Christmas at the court of King John magnacartaresearch.blogspot.…
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After Davie Broun's great talk at British Academy, for Eng/Scot see DAC's FoM on downfall of Robert de Ros Aug 2012 finerollshenry3.org.uk/conte…
Super evening here at British Academy for Davie Broun's talk on Britain & Beginning of Scotland. See Davie's Feature breakingofbritain.ac.uk/blog…
Looking forward to Davie Broun's talk tonight @britac_news on Britain & Beginning of Scotland:6pm, free &all welcome britac.ac.uk/events/2013/Bri…
Site includes commentaries on #MagnaCarta1215, text/photos of King John's charters & more (& lots more to come) magnacarta.cmp.uea.ac.uk/
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Our new look Magna Carta Project site is now online! magnacarta.cmp.uea.ac.uk/ Still a work in progress but some MC1215 commentaries already up
Working on the Magna Carta website at the moment with Geoff French at UEA - watch this space for updates, blogs, features, commentaries