@Watson950

Historian, Emeritus Professor, Waratahs, Blue Jays, Winchester Cathedral

 Winchester
Joined December 2010
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📢CALL FOR PAPERS📢 If you are studying any aspect of history in the South of England and would like to publish your work, get in touch! We'll soon be looking at papers submitted for our 49th volume. Guidance for contributors can be found on our website. southernhistorysociety.org.u…
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Mark Stephens@MarksLarksSep 25
There are some fantastic plaques out there. Two favourites (unless you know better?)
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The Southern History Society is now on Bluesky and Facebook! On all our channels: contents lists, calls for papers, news and more about our 47 volumes of Southern History, the peer-reviewed journal of the history of southern England. 🦋 southernhistsoc.bsky.social 📘 southernhistsoc
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New exhibition opening soon at @MuseumCromwell in association @FortressStudy - do check it out!
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Honesty in hiking which is almost a philosophical statement. Seen at #Ohsweken #Canada 🇨🇦
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LISTEN Norwich’s ‘Great Blow’ of 1648 In this follow-up programme to the the feature podcast worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/…, Professor Hopper discusses the impact on Norwich of the enormous explosion in 1648, known to contemporaries as the ‘Great Blow’. worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/…
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LISTEN Everyday informing in revolutionary England Informing and informers were pervasive in successive governments’ attempts to maintain the security and stability of the English Republic between 1649 and 1660. Waseem Ahmed discusses the topic. worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/…
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The Prince Harry case failed the basic test of the newsroom. My analysis of an historic court case - thetimes.com/article/5d0f323…
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Hampshire link to man who saved Canada from becoming American ift.tt/vnOupst

Hampshire link to man who saved Canada from becoming American

Visitors walking through the south nave aisle of Winchester Cathedral may easily pass one of its more intriguing memorials without realising the international story behind it.

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Sir George Prevost - Hampshire link to man who saved #Canada 🇨🇦 from becoming American hampshirechronicle.co.uk/new…

Hampshire link to man who saved Canada from becoming American

Visitors walking through the south nave aisle of Winchester Cathedral may easily pass one of its more intriguing memorials without realising the international story behind it.

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Our next online lecture is this Wednesday at 7.30pm, when Simon Marsh of the Battlefields Trust will be discussing the role of artillery during the Civil Wars of the 1640s. How effective were cannon in reality? More details at: cromwellmuseum.org/whats-on/…
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The Kingmaker Sir Anthony de Blair has come out against Lord Protector Keir Starmer. Makerfield is currently under siege by the Earl of Manchester, whose march on London appears inevitable now.
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Everyone should read this article. Almost brings you to tears.
Matthew Syed@matthewsyedMay 10
Staffordians are amazing people who have been utterly betrayed by a political system that forgot what it was for and who it was supposed to serve.— their Reform UK vote is a cry of despair thetimes.com/article/01fa402…
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Zack Polanski falsely claimed to be British Red Cross spokesman thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…

Zack Polanski falsely claimed to be British Red Cross spokesman

The Green Party leader was also not a full member of the National Council of Hypnotherapy despite making the claim to potential clients

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This exchange between @AphraBrandreth and Olly Robbins is crucial: Starmer wanted Mandelson as US ambassador, so the Foreign Office acted on his orders and waived it through. The buck therefore firmly rests with the Starmer for making the appointment pre vetting.
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Hi @DailyMail your “journalist” Perkin Amalaraj has taken this story from a report in the Kathmandu Post. The language is slightly different as it’s been re-written as a summary, but the details aren’t. You’ve ripped off the investigative work of a modest newspaper in Nepal and turned it into a real eye-grabbing story for you. You have mentioned the original story in one line and not even linked to the original report. How do you want to fix this?
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Everest poisoning scandal: Guides 'secretly lace climbers' food to trigger costly helicopter rescues' as part of £15million insurance scam trib.al/DK6tZ25

Everest guides 'lace climbers' food to trigger rescues' in £15m scam

Guides taking tourists up and down Mount Everest have allegedly been secretly lacing climbers' food to trigger costly helicopter rescues as part of a pervasive £15million insurance scam

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Just 4 days until my lecture and Q&A with @PStiffell for @TudorsDynasty! 🎉 Join us this Sunday at 2pm UK time (10am Eastern) for our 30-minute lectures and Q&A afterwards, all about Mary I and the precedent she set for Elizabeth I 👑 drjohannastrong.ca/2026/03/0…
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Who was the 'pre-eminent' man remembered by the statue in ⁦@WinCathedral⁩? It’s Sir John Clobery, one of General Monck’s agents in 1660. ⁦@Cromwellorg⁩ hampshirechronicle.co.uk/new…

Who was the 'pre-eminent' man remembered by the statue in Winchester Cathedral?

The life-size statue of Sir John Clobery and its grand surrounding memorial in Winchester Cathedral seem to indicate a man of real importance. The epitaph on the memorial, in Latin, states that he...

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I'm delighted to announce that I'm joining @TudorsDynasty and @PStiffell for a lecture event on "Queenship Before Elizabeth: How Mary I shaped the Foundations of Elizabeth I's reign"! 👑 Further information and tickets are available here: drjohannastrong.ca/2026/03/0… 1/2
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