Posts by Euan Roger Records and researchHow those found guilty of treason were punishedTuesday 28 March 2023Explore some of the more unusual, symbolic and grisly executions of traitors....Records and researchThe Bag of SecretsThursday 16 February 2023What is the 'Bag of Secrets' and how did it come to exist?...Records and research‘Compassing and imagining’: Magic and civil warThursday 19 January 2023Magic (to the medieval mind at least) could be used to produce real-world effects...Records and research‘Compassing and imagining’: Treasonous wordsThursday 12 January 2023The crime of high treason, as first defined in law in 1352 and still...Records and researchGeoffrey Chaucer and Cecily Chaumpaigne: Rethinking the recordWednesday 12 October 2022May to July 1380 that involve Geoffrey Chaucer and Cecily Chaumpaigne, the daughter of...Records and researchGood will to all: Henry VI’s Christmas pardon of 1470-71Friday 18 December 2020Those watching in bemusement, as every year before Thanksgiving the President of the United...Records and researchThe Records of the Readeption Parliament of 1470-71Thursday 26 November 2020For most of the Parliaments of the later middle ages, the records are remarkably...Records and researchThe birth (and the death?) of Edward VMonday 2 November 2020In this blog I take a look at some of those left behind in...Records and researchThe 550th anniversary of Henry VI’s ReadeptionFriday 2 October 2020October 2020 marks the start of the 550th anniversary of what historians know as...Records and researchShut up: Quarantine and social distancing during Tudor epidemicsWednesday 3 June 2020As the archive of medieval government and the law courts, our collections can shed...Records and researchThe 600th anniversary of the Treaty of TroyesThursday 21 May 202021 May 2020 marks the 600th anniversary of the Treaty of Troyes, a peace...Records and research‘Last term my rolls were painted very ill’: An early modern poem hidden among the records of the King’s BenchMonday 13 April 2020Hidden away in the King’s Bench plea roll for Trinity term 1627, however, is... 1 2 »