Danie Burton
@princessburton.bsky.social
Historian, history blogger, heritage worker. Anthony Woodville: Sophisticate or Schemer, biography of Anthony Woodville out now. Article Yorkists under Henry VII in September 2017 Ricardian Bulletin.
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Danie Burton
@princessburton.bsky.social
· Oct 29
Just received this review from Amanda over on Goodreads for Anthony Woodville: Sophisticate or Schemer. Wow, what a lovely review!! 🥰 I’ve felt unwell for the last few days and this has cheered me up no end! ❤️❤️
Professionally, I’ve been proud of what I’ve been able to achieve this year. I had the most bookings for talks, including my first large international one with @onthetudortrail.bsky.social about Edward V. Did first full season of my Georgian Derby and Belper tours and also had a stall at two fairs.
December 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Professionally, I’ve been proud of what I’ve been able to achieve this year. I had the most bookings for talks, including my first large international one with @onthetudortrail.bsky.social about Edward V. Did first full season of my Georgian Derby and Belper tours and also had a stall at two fairs.
Just started pulling things together to write up my next talk. A massive thank you to Canva for designing this pretty awesome title page for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Yeehaw!
December 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Just started pulling things together to write up my next talk. A massive thank you to Canva for designing this pretty awesome title page for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Yeehaw!
People have been asking me for a while what's your next book coming out. My response is, I have ideas, but with 3 jobs and caring responsibilities, I haven't approached anyone. I have been thinking about it. What are people's experiences of getting dissertations prepared for publication?
December 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
People have been asking me for a while what's your next book coming out. My response is, I have ideas, but with 3 jobs and caring responsibilities, I haven't approached anyone. I have been thinking about it. What are people's experiences of getting dissertations prepared for publication?
With the end of 2025 coming up, I thought I'd do a round up of my top history reads for the year. Topics range from the Wild West to the Second World War, there's something for everyone. Find out more in this latest #voyagerofhistory post. #historyblog wp.me/pagtWm-XU
My Top 5 History Reads of 2025
I’ve been doing these top history reads since 2021 as a helpful guide to some gift ideas for the history lovers in your life. They have proved fairly popular so here we are with the 2025 edit…
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December 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
With the end of 2025 coming up, I thought I'd do a round up of my top history reads for the year. Topics range from the Wild West to the Second World War, there's something for everyone. Find out more in this latest #voyagerofhistory post. #historyblog wp.me/pagtWm-XU
It’s nearly Christmas! Do you know a history or Wars of the Roses lover? Well I have the perfect thing, my biography on Anthony Woodville, brother-in-law to Edward IV. Available through Amazon, Waterstones and other good book retailers. #anthonywoodville #WarsoftheRoses #fifteenthcentury
December 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
It’s nearly Christmas! Do you know a history or Wars of the Roses lover? Well I have the perfect thing, my biography on Anthony Woodville, brother-in-law to Edward IV. Available through Amazon, Waterstones and other good book retailers. #anthonywoodville #WarsoftheRoses #fifteenthcentury
And here we have a history lover in her natural environment absorbing as much information as possible. #hardwickhall #historylover
December 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
And here we have a history lover in her natural environment absorbing as much information as possible. #hardwickhall #historylover
On Friday, me and my sister visited Hardwick Hall for their Christmas display. I haven’t been since university induction week 11 years ago and my sister had never been! 😱 Really enjoyed ourselves. History and Christmas, my 2 favourite things, can you tell? 😂 As my sister said, history chills! 🥰
December 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
On Friday, me and my sister visited Hardwick Hall for their Christmas display. I haven’t been since university induction week 11 years ago and my sister had never been! 😱 Really enjoyed ourselves. History and Christmas, my 2 favourite things, can you tell? 😂 As my sister said, history chills! 🥰
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On 2 December 1586, the machinery of Tudor justice stirred into motion. Queen Elizabeth I’s councillors formally drafted the death warrant for Mary, Queen of Scots- the first step toward an execution that would echo across Europe.
Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors
Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors
December 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
On 2 December 1586, the machinery of Tudor justice stirred into motion. Queen Elizabeth I’s councillors formally drafted the death warrant for Mary, Queen of Scots- the first step toward an execution that would echo across Europe.
Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors
Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors
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Whilst celebrating the collections, it's important to recognise histories that are underrepresented in archives. #EYASilence is an opportunity to highlight work taking place to challenge these silences, such as Ashanti Harris's project which consulted the Scottish Theatre Archive.
STA 2Fa 2/42
STA 2Fa 2/42
December 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Whilst celebrating the collections, it's important to recognise histories that are underrepresented in archives. #EYASilence is an opportunity to highlight work taking place to challenge these silences, such as Ashanti Harris's project which consulted the Scottish Theatre Archive.
STA 2Fa 2/42
STA 2Fa 2/42
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221 years ago, on the 2nd of December 1804, Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of the French at Notre Dame Cathedral. The 'Crown of Charlemagne' used previously had been destroyed during the revolution. 48 years later to the day, Napoleon III became Emperor. #otd #history 🗃️
December 2, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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🌍🪐✨ St. Mary Lastingham, Yorks - out of this world.
"This place - the journey to it, the aura, the echoes, the muted light, the Saxon remnants and the Romanesque - has lifted my anxious self into a more rooted sense of the world."
More words and 📸:
👉 www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshal...
"This place - the journey to it, the aura, the echoes, the muted light, the Saxon remnants and the Romanesque - has lifted my anxious self into a more rooted sense of the world."
More words and 📸:
👉 www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshal...
November 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
🌍🪐✨ St. Mary Lastingham, Yorks - out of this world.
"This place - the journey to it, the aura, the echoes, the muted light, the Saxon remnants and the Romanesque - has lifted my anxious self into a more rooted sense of the world."
More words and 📸:
👉 www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshal...
"This place - the journey to it, the aura, the echoes, the muted light, the Saxon remnants and the Romanesque - has lifted my anxious self into a more rooted sense of the world."
More words and 📸:
👉 www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshal...
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Suggestion for a new themed week on #Strictly: medieval dancing! We’re lucky to have this fragile dance manual from the late 15th century in our archives. It contains dance instructions, manes of dances, numbers of dancers required, and even some of the music.
#EYAMedieval #15thCentury #dance
#EYAMedieval #15thCentury #dance
December 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Suggestion for a new themed week on #Strictly: medieval dancing! We’re lucky to have this fragile dance manual from the late 15th century in our archives. It contains dance instructions, manes of dances, numbers of dancers required, and even some of the music.
#EYAMedieval #15thCentury #dance
#EYAMedieval #15thCentury #dance
Quanah Parker, Comanche chief, and Theodore Roosevelt met regularly whilst the latter was President. This included a 4 day stay at Parker's home of Star House. Find out more in this latest #voyagerofhistory post. #historyblog #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth wp.me/pagtWm-SD
Quanah Parker and Teddy Roosevelt
My favourite American president is Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt. Not only because as legend has it, he is the reason we have teddy bears, but because I feel he was a genuine man who wanted the best f…
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November 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Quanah Parker, Comanche chief, and Theodore Roosevelt met regularly whilst the latter was President. This included a 4 day stay at Parker's home of Star House. Find out more in this latest #voyagerofhistory post. #historyblog #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth wp.me/pagtWm-SD
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Here's another shout out to our Digital Showcase, where you can explore curated insights across our unique and distinctive collections.
Take a look online digitalshowcase.ncl.ac.uk
Take a look online digitalshowcase.ncl.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Here's another shout out to our Digital Showcase, where you can explore curated insights across our unique and distinctive collections.
Take a look online digitalshowcase.ncl.ac.uk
Take a look online digitalshowcase.ncl.ac.uk
I haven't been lucky with the books I've been reading lately. Started some that turned out not to be very good and couldn't finish them. Just started this one about a spunky young woman joining the ATS in the Second World War. Really enjoying this so far.
November 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I haven't been lucky with the books I've been reading lately. Started some that turned out not to be very good and couldn't finish them. Just started this one about a spunky young woman joining the ATS in the Second World War. Really enjoying this so far.
Anyone who knows me will know I HATE sport. PE was the worst thing ever at school. What I am for though is for women to have a choice in what they do, even better if they beat men! Recently, I have been looking into the Dick, Kerr Ladies football team. An amazing story and may be a future talk.
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Anyone who knows me will know I HATE sport. PE was the worst thing ever at school. What I am for though is for women to have a choice in what they do, even better if they beat men! Recently, I have been looking into the Dick, Kerr Ladies football team. An amazing story and may be a future talk.
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The Great Chamber at St. Nicholas Priory, Exeter. A broad stone staircase leads up to the room in which the medieval Priory's guests would have been fed. After the Reformation this probably served as a great chamber. The upper end of the hall, where there may have been a /1
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The Great Chamber at St. Nicholas Priory, Exeter. A broad stone staircase leads up to the room in which the medieval Priory's guests would have been fed. After the Reformation this probably served as a great chamber. The upper end of the hall, where there may have been a /1
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Rogier v. Weyden (Flemish, about 1399–1464),
Portrait of a Man, about 1450
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, The Clowes Collection, 2018.27.
Portrait of a Man, about 1450
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, The Clowes Collection, 2018.27.
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Rogier v. Weyden (Flemish, about 1399–1464),
Portrait of a Man, about 1450
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, The Clowes Collection, 2018.27.
Portrait of a Man, about 1450
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, The Clowes Collection, 2018.27.
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We like this group of very smart and proud railway staff photographed just after the opening of the new station at Chinley, 1902. Also featuring a WH Smith paper boy and a child in a pushchair…
#Railway200 #1900s
#Railway200 #1900s
November 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
We like this group of very smart and proud railway staff photographed just after the opening of the new station at Chinley, 1902. Also featuring a WH Smith paper boy and a child in a pushchair…
#Railway200 #1900s
#Railway200 #1900s
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When in 1899 Frederick Gell retired as Bishop of Madras, this letter sent to a local paper shows a Hindu perspective. In it the writer states that “a pious man is a pious man, whether he be a Christian, or a Hindu.”
#EYAReligion/Spirituality
#EYAReligion/Spirituality
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
When in 1899 Frederick Gell retired as Bishop of Madras, this letter sent to a local paper shows a Hindu perspective. In it the writer states that “a pious man is a pious man, whether he be a Christian, or a Hindu.”
#EYAReligion/Spirituality
#EYAReligion/Spirituality
Just gave my first talk on the Suffragette Hospital at Endell Street. Was quite stressful to think what to include or not. Went well, so I’m very relieved. To celebrate, here’s a photo of the operating theatre in their first hospital in a Paris hotel in the ladies’ toilets!
November 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Just gave my first talk on the Suffragette Hospital at Endell Street. Was quite stressful to think what to include or not. Went well, so I’m very relieved. To celebrate, here’s a photo of the operating theatre in their first hospital in a Paris hotel in the ladies’ toilets!
Looking for a Christmas present for a history lover or a fan of the Wars of the Roses? Then my biography of Anthony Woodville only has 12 copies left on Amazon! It’s also slightly reduced too.
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Looking for a Christmas present for a history lover or a fan of the Wars of the Roses? Then my biography of Anthony Woodville only has 12 copies left on Amazon! It’s also slightly reduced too.
Zitkala-Sa, known as Red Bird in English, spent most of her life campaigning for the rights of Native Americans. Find out more about her campaigns in this post from the #voyagerofhistory archives. #historyblog #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth wp.me/pagtWm-tL
Zitkala-Sa: Influential Native American Activist
November is National American Indian Heritage Month in America. For regular readers, you may not be surprised that I decided to write a post dedicated to that. Despite living in the East Midlands o…
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November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Zitkala-Sa, known as Red Bird in English, spent most of her life campaigning for the rights of Native Americans. Find out more about her campaigns in this post from the #voyagerofhistory archives. #historyblog #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth wp.me/pagtWm-tL
Tony Bear had a day out today to a coffee morning with friends as part of a treasure/memory session.
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Tony Bear had a day out today to a coffee morning with friends as part of a treasure/memory session.