1902 Oxford scholarship exam: tell me, 17-year-old-lad, how and why do nations decline through decadence?

Excited to share a draft of the cover for the paperback version of SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS. I have been delighted at the public and scholarly engagement with this book and look forward to reaching new readers in paperback form! share.google/LnS2iT9Bf34884…

These are some characters from Thomas Lupton's interlude "All for Money" (1577). Which character do you identify with?😭

Exciting news! Our new issue is out now! We'll be sharing a bit about each of the articles over the coming days, but in the meantime explore for yourself 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17500206/2… #history #Parliament

Herodotus faithfully reported that creatures burrow into the gold-rich earth of India and come up with gold. His informant called them murmekes, Greek for ‘ants’. But the word meant ‘marmots’ in his language, and Peissel reported in the 1990s that Indian marmots burrow in the

. Jonathan McGovern compares an early draft of John Hooker's 'The Order and usage how to keep a parliament in England in these days' (c. 1571) to it's final print. Hooker's careful revisions give us further confidence in his work. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17… #Parliament #History

New article published in the Journal of Legal History. It discusses a newly discovered manuscript version of a treatise by William Fleetwood on the application of statute law in the early modern English courts. tandfonline.com/eprint/4SY4CMH…

Books written in the 1900s

"Adam Sammut's (...) profound study deserves respect for having plausibly presented the interconnections between art, religion, politics, and economics in the Spanish Netherlands during the Counter-Reformation". cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Stephen Pollington, author of "WODEN: A HISTORICAL COMPANION," recently published two excellent new books: "RUNES: A GUIDE TO THEIR HISTORY AND USAGE" and "MEAD HALL: A GUIDE TO FEASTING IN EARLY MEDIEVAL ENGLAND." Check them out!

It is always exciting to see the publication of serious new philological work, though perhaps telling that it is authored by an emeritus professor.

CoffeeWithTheClassics This jolly Little History of England by Jonathan McGovern

Teachers of Shakespeare at KS4-5, I'm taking bookings for online and outreach sessions covering contexts; language; critical and creative interpretations; and developing personal informed responses to your studied Shakespeare play. For further info email [email protected]

Not to get too excited, but I've just signed a contract with Reaktion Books to write ‘Strange Christianities’, a new and different history of the Christianisation of Europe... drfrancisyoung.com/2025/08/30/con… 📚🥳

Cover proofs for new book, coming out in December!

'The Early Parliaments of Henry VIII, 1510-1523' by Jonathan McGovern will be published on 9th December: waterstones.com/book/the-early…. 'An administrative study of Henry VIII's early parliaments (1510 to 1523), which systematically explains and analyses every aspect of parliament in

Warburton bashing a rival critic (1778): 'Mr. THEOBALD was naturally turned to industry and labour. What he read he could transcribe; but as what he thought, if ever he did think, he could but ill express, so he read on.'

NOW AVAILABLE! For the first time ever, you can read the corpus of OHG poetry with facing-page English translations from Brian Murdoch. Visit: uppsalabooks.com/ohg