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June 2025

Re-post: The most important publication in science was paid for in fish books
‘It defined how we understand the universe and popularised the ‘scientific method’, which is the bedrock of modern science.’
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Amy Freeborn
Exploring the lives of women through the instructions they left for their deaths
Wills can provide a tangible sense of the personalities of, the people and possession that were important to, ordinary people from the past.
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Amy Freeborn
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History writing, history, and writing #5
Digital archives, bone music, purple dye, and textile design.
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Amy Freeborn

May 2025

Ill-gotten game and other wartime fun
In between the fighting, there was still time for a bit of mischief.
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Amy Freeborn
Women’s role in writing the historical record
The research that’s established a baseline of activity and revealed there’s still more to uncover.
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Amy Freeborn
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A unique manuscript on the production and consumption of cheese in 16th Century England
The good, the bad, and the horse-y of the “chiefest” of foods in the Tudor period.
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Amy Freeborn
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History writing, history, and writing #4
A literary theory, librarians, the right to light, and a cheeky cat.
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Amy Freeborn
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April 2025

What is the UK's human cultural heritage?
Recognising, and protecting for the future, the ‘living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants’.
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Amy Freeborn
Isaac Newton’s beer mug and boozy ink recipes
A 'valuable relic' and 'excellent' formula which have both 'endured many years'.
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Amy Freeborn
History writing, history, and writing #3
A forgotten scholar, feminine figures, graffiti, and a doghouse.
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Amy Freeborn

March 2025

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