"This article seeks to understand mercantilism not as an elite philosophy, but as a process of interaction between private interests that stretched beyond London across England and the wider world, in which contribution to the public interest was asserted primarily by the capacity of a trade to support domestic employment in an increasingly global economy."
"Medieval hospitals were founded to provide charity, but poverty and infirmity were broad and socially determined categories and little is known about the residents of these institutions and the pathways that led them there. Combining skeletal, isotopic and genetic data, the authors weave a collective biography of individuals buried at the Hospital of St John the Evangelist, Cambridge."
The White Ship
Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I's Dream
The sinking of the White Ship on the 25th November 1120 is one of the greatest disasters that England has ever suffered. Its repercussions would change English and European history for ever.
The Pirate Who Stole Scotland: William Dampier and the Creation of the United Kingdom
He was a pirate, a brute and a devious sociopath. But he was also a scientist and a talented writer who gave his readers accurate descriptions of previously unknown places, peoples, plants and animals. He was a daring explorer and an expert navigator who mapped coastlines and logged wind patterns and ocean currents. @bookstodon #books #nonfiction #biography #history #WilliamDampier #Scotland #England
Today's indie author review! Coming Out at Crofton Hall" by Rebecca Cohen:
"Cohen does a fantastic job. They all grow and change, and become very likable characters. Well written, serious and fun, full of banter and lots of romance. I'm ready for the next story."
#OnThisDay in #history - in 1587, perhaps the first female English novelist, Lady Mary Wroth (nee Sidney) was born. Learned, literary, and sophisticated, Mary was a favorite of Queen Anna of Denmark and danced in several of her masques. In addition to serving as a patron, she was friends with Ben Jonson and was noted for her writings by him and their contemporaries. She wrote Urania and was the first known woman in #England to have written a sonnet sequence. #OTD#histodons@histodons
A british comedian wrote a book. In his early ife he studied history. During the pandemic David Mitchell crafted an entertaining History of England's Kings and Queens: "Unruly". Ive got the audio-version, and I love it. Instead of an amazon link, a link to an interview he gave about his book: https://youtu.be/INabb1VL8qg?si=iQrnYq5xMAQXKUeQ
> A project mapping medieval England's known murder cases has now added Oxford and York to its street plan of London's 14th century slayings, and found that Oxford's student population was by far the most lethally violent of all social or professional groups in any of the three cities.
#OnThisDay in #history - The She-Majesty Generalissima of the English Cavaliers, Henriette Marie, died at the age of 59. She had been married to Charles I, king of #England when she was 15 years old. Henriette Marie was a loyal wife and queen, fundraising on the Continent during the English Civil Wars. Profoundly determined, she survived being shot at and escaped sharing in her husband's execution by protecting their children and taking them to France. #OTD#histodons@histodons@royalhistory
#OnThisDay in #history - in 1797 Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born in #England - daughter of political feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft and novelist William Godwin, Mary wed Percy Bysshe Shelley when she was 19. They lived abroad, her returning to England after Shelley's death. She worked as a writer and editor, collecting and annotating her husband's works and creating historical novels, biographical pieces, as well as her best known novel, Frankenstein. #OTD#histodons@histodons
"In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas."