Helen Castor
@hrcastor
Blood & Roses, She-Wolves, Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I, THE EAGLE AND THE HART https://helencastor.substack.com/
What a brilliant first day back hosting @HallHarvington History Festival! So lovely to share a stage with @hrcastor @anniegarthwaite @NicolaTallis @NathenAmin @jpwarchaeology & hear their brilliant talks AND meet Little Humph @HarvingtonCats
You will not be disappointed, The Eagle and the Hart is great. In addition to today’s @cowenconvos discussion, if you have not already listened to it, her conversation with @HenryEOliver back in May, is excellent as well. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…
Wonderful to talk to @tylercowen @cowenconvos about tyranny, Asimov, and everything in between
How do you solve a problem like Richard II? In today’s episode, historian @hrcastor lays out the dilemma for @tylercowen: “If a king became a tyrant, what could be done about it? The classic definition that contemporaries used as a working definition was that kingship was rule…
I’ve been looking forward to this since @tylercowen first mentioned it was in the works. Today Tyler talks with the wonderful @hrcastor , whose The Eagle and the Hart is my favorite read so far this year. I’m currently reading her She-Wolves. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/con…
Sometimes the best questions are the simplest. @tylercowen interviewing @hrcastor on medieval power is terrific podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/con…
When the deeds have eyes...really fantastic portraiture, possibly of Edward III, in a English royal charter sent to Ireland in 1375 at @NLIreland. The face is drawn into the loop of the h for hib[er]nie or Ireland, and has a rather Big Brother (or Edward) is watching you feeling
St Margaret of Antioch; not a woman to be crossed.
Today is the feast day of St Margaret of Antioch, variously credited with yelling at the devil so loudly he fled, gutting a dragon from the inside with her cross, and smacking Beelzebub with a hammer. This year's motto: Be More Margaret 🔨
Can’t wait for this - what a life…
Thrilled to announce that Professor Therese Radic and I have signed a contract with @penswordbooks to publish the first ever full biography of F.S. Kelly: Virtuoso, Olympic champion and warrior
We’re so lucky to have the incredible @hrcastor with us @Southwarkcathed on Saturday, & she’ll be talking about her brilliant book, ‘The Eagle & the Hart’. Grab your tickets from eventbrite.com/e/eagle-and-th… @FellowsAuctions
The brilliant Helen Castor @hrcastor was ambushed by the History Book Buffs at Chalke History Festival and subjected to the Three Book Challenge. Her answers are here. youtube.com/shorts/9ETN8ha…
This is true and it's tragic but on the other hand we do have a twelfth century monastery in Upper Manhattan because we just bought it and moved it there
just remembered that americans don’t have random old castles in the countryside that they can go and visit
J is for Jerusalem Chamber - part of the medieval Abbot's house at Westminster Abbey. On the roof timbers are the painted initials of Abbot Nicholas Litlyngton (who added the room to the house); and a crowned letter R for Richard II in whose reign the room was built. It was in…
Corner of a hand-stitched sail from the 1800s. Every warship had a sailmaker who played a vital role in making and maintaining the huge number of sails required to power the ship in all weathers. #Ageofsail #RoyalNavy #Tallships
Castor...the Norman tower is surely only matched in Hampshire by East Meon?