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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 2d

And in the week when G-A-Y closed its doors. The old Soho club culture is dying its own natural death, without silly performative evangelicals claiming credit.

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 5d

I do hope it closes off that historiographical cul de sac for good and all. It proved only that French historians could be brainwashed as easily as the British by grand narratives, in our case by Oxbridge constitutionalist history, still twitching

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 9d

The recent VCH volume suggests from extant remains that the Gothic collegiate church was preceded by a major cruciform Romanesque church with stone vaults, the one presided over by the famous historian Roger of Howden as minster head, or ‘persona’ between c.1169 and 1202

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 11d

My German is crap, but "Gefallt aus" was a phrase I was glad I understood on my last visit

David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 15d

I remember the damp black dust it deposited on the fields of Mountain Ash comp down the valley

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 15d

F**k Calvinism

David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 16d

Might be makeshift staithes, set in banks of tidal rivers to deflect the ebb rip from undermining the sea bank. A medieval strategy in Yorkshire

David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 16d

Already sold out. They need a bigger venue dammit

David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 16d

Fantastic. My town. I will be there.

David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 17d

Ah Senate House. Home of the Institute of Historical Research. Best history library in the UK.

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 18d

I would point to certain publishers, amongst whom grew the belief that professionally trained historians were Dry-as-dusts incapable of writing accessibly. This became apparent in the 1990s when unqualified writers began to publish titles on very serious topics sources for which they could not read.

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 18d

Roberts does seem to be one of those scientists who believes the humanities are easy subjects and anyone can do them. without any formal training. History as much as theology suffers from these berks.

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 20d

On Thursday, the remarkable north porch door of Kilnwick Percy church. The dilapidated church was reconstructed in an elaborate neo-Romanesque style in 1864–5 to designs by J.B. & W. Atkinson for Arthur Duncombe, and this door was shifted from the south side to the new north porch facing the Hall.

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 23d

If you were a boy educated in the 1950s the comics you read were full of heroic Tommies mowing down Nazis and winning VCs. My first German words were inevitably ‘Achtung’ and ‘Handes hoch’. No wonder so many men in their sixties were Brexit fodder

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 26d

Another dismally dumb low quality HE Exec

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 26d

And a nod to Scarborough whose 12th century town walls closed off its promontory. Its rebuilt gate on Westborough survived till as late as Victoria’s reign and gave its name to Bar Street

David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · Sep 7

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · Sep 7

Not great but here are a couple of pics of the chancel arch against which it's been parked since the beginning of the 20th century (I think)

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · Sep 6

There’s one of those freestanding mini-fonts I know of in St Margaret’s Millington, East Riding. No picture unfortunately but more Romanesque than Gothic in shape

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · Sep 6

Quite a survival rate for stoups though almost all I know are set in walls by doors. Fons pascalis sounds interesting

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · Sep 5

Miniature font or portable stoup? How does one tell?

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · Sep 4

Castle Hedingham is rural and has the turreted square keep but not now the forebuilding

David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · Sep 3

So you can see why he refused Edward’s offer to make him an English earl. It was a deliberate insult from the Psycho King

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · Sep 3

It depends on how you define capitalism I guess. The first universities were run as money-making machines with tutors paid directly by their pupils, mostly on a career path into the ecclesiastical hierarchy. The devotion to research we so venerate now was not their business in Paris and Oxford

David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · Sep 1

He was an individual for sure, though not framed by camp the way Stephen Fry is. But plummy he could be. He was at Strawberry Hill when I first met him (and you) in the early 80s. Hadn’t realised he taught at UEA.

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