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Rewilding: lessons from the medieval Baltic crusades

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14 May 202022 May 2020

The Forest of Białowieża, which straddles the border of Poland and Belarus, is unique in Europe: it is incredibly ancient. Woodland has been continuously present there for some 12,000 years….Read More >

The medieval roots of modern weather forecasts

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6 March 20205 March 2020

From astronomy to almanacs, Professor Anne Lawrence-Mathers explores the historical origins of weather forecasting in a new post for The Conversation. It’s official: according to the UK’s Met Office, February 2020…Read More >

England’s history of defaulting on European lenders shows repercussions of not paying Brexit bill

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18 June 2019

Failure to pay our European creditors is not a first for the English, as our medieval past shows. What has gone before reveals the damaging consequences of not paying our…Read More >

From Brexit to the peasants’ revolt: what does it mean to be a ‘rebel’?

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12 February 2019

The word ‘rebel’ is usually associated with violence, but we hear it almost daily at the moment as MPs grapple over Brexit. Medieval historian Andy Ford explores the fourteenth century…Read More >

From Brexit to the peasants’ revolt: what does it mean to be a ‘rebel’?

The pope is never wrong: a history of papal infallibility in the Catholic Church

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10 January 201910 January 2019

This morning, 10 January, Rebecca Rist, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Reading, featured in an episode of the BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg….Read More >

The pope is never wrong: a history of papal infallibility in the Catholic Church

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