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‘Strange and terrible news from Essex’, being a ‘true relation’ of Mary Adams and a monstrous birth
In 1652 one Mary Adams of Tillingham, Essex apparently died by her own hand.[1] According to an eight-page pamphlet entitled The Ranters Monster printed…
Dec 21, 2025
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Ariel Hessayon
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PSUEDOCHRISTUS: being a true relation of the grand impostures, abominable practises, horrid blasphemies & gross deceits spread abroad and…
On 30 January 1649 King Charles I was publicly executed at Whitehall.
Nov 23, 2025
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Ariel Hessayon
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Witnesses against the beast: The English Revolution (1641–1660) and its radical legacies
In 1957, just one year after the Soviet Union’s brutal suppression of the Hungarian Uprising, the Marxist historian Arthur Leslie Morton (1903–1987…
Nov 3, 2025
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Ariel Hessayon
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Judith and Holofernes. Part one
decapitate (verb): to cut off the head of a person or animal; to behead, kill by beheading [Oxford English Dictionary, earliest recorded usage of 1611]
Oct 12, 2025
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Ariel Hessayon
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The Muggletonians, 1652–1979? Part three
In the second part of this essay we saw how there was much more to say about Edward Thompson’s recovery of the Muggletonian archive than is commonly…
Aug 17, 2025
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Ariel Hessayon
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The Muggletonians, 1652–1979? Part two
The story of historian Edward Thompson’s recovery of the Muggletonian archive is relatively well-known and has been told before.[1] Yet as we shall see…
Aug 3, 2025
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Ariel Hessayon
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The Muggletonians, 1652–1979? Part one
It was on the mornings of 3, 4 and 5 February 1652 that the ‘Lord Jesus, the only wise God’ spoke to a man named John Reeve (1608–1658), revealing to…
Jul 19, 2025
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Ariel Hessayon
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Magna Carta: its myths and continued relevance
liberty (noun, 1): freedom or release from slavery, bondage or imprisonment – including arbitrary, despotic or autocratic control [Oxford English…
Jun 15, 2025
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Ariel Hessayon
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John Ball in English History
The priest John Ball (c.1338–1381) was a popular figure around the time of the English Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 and known for his preaching against the…
May 25, 2025
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James Crossley
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Terrain and Gallipoli, 1915–2025. Part two
In the previous part of this essay we saw that General Sir Ian Hamilton faced considerable challenges in planning to storm the beaches of Gallipoli on…
May 4, 2025
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Peter Doyle
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