Royal Stuart Society is interested in the Royal House of Stuart, supporting research in Stuart History and upholding monarchy. Events, lectures, commemorations.
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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, regardless of which patria that happens to be.
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Naturally, @BalliolOxford has the most superior example of gallant German student patriots: Adam von Trott zu Solz, who died as a result f his involvement in the June 20 1944 plot to kill Hitler.
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Yes. Related my great, great grandfather came to Britain in 1871 from Germany (not a fan of the Prussians) and 4 of his sons died fighting for Britain in WW1. I have their medals and feels so poignant to see the German names on there. Unbelievable folly.
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This is Prince Wolrad of Waldeck and Pyrmont, whose name is on the memorial plaque.
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A generosity of spirit increasingly rare in our own supposedly enlightened age.
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A less obtrusive memorial in another college chapel, but even more thought-provoking.
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When in Worcester on Halloween – or any other evening – King Charles House, New Street, and the King's Head, Sidbury.
#KingCharles
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The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie is the earliest surviving example of the Scottish version of the flyting genre in poetry. The genre takes the form of a contest between two poets, each trying to outclass the other in vituperation and verbal pyrotechnics
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fl…
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A big grey horse visiting a children’s hospital pulled the knitted hat off a little girl’s head in the courtyard. Her mother tried to get it back, but the horse had other plans.
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A wood mouse snuck into Celeste the barn
owl's nest whilst she was out 🐁
It even hid a snack behind a feather🪶
This story is progressing. The mouse has been back a
few times, sometimes with a friend! It's only a matter of time before Celeste catches on! Or is it?
🔗Watch live: robertefuller.com/pages/live…
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Really happy that Max will be giving a talk @UWF related to this new book, October 5th at 1:30 p.m. at the UWF Conference Center. @PrincetonUPress has graciously sent across copies of the book, available at the event. @uwfcivicacademy @PresMannyDiazJr
My new book is released in one week @PrincetonUPress. John Dunn: “Since the United Kingdom is still unique in retaining an unwritten constitution, the contours of which recede into the mists of time, Max Skjönsberg’s impressively accomplished and up-to-date study of the key centuries of struggle to define its spirit shows why that struggle is unlikely to end until the state itself does.” press.princeton.edu/books/ha…
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My article 'John Owen and the Plotters' with JEH @CambridgeUP is available today with open access. Elections, spies, plots, sermons, and more.
Did John Owen want the king killed? Link below:
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
If you’re interested in the political side of this work, I have an article coming out soon w JEH @CambridgeUP : ‘John Owen and the Plotters’
In the article I look at Owen’s connections to conspiratorial networks during the Exclusion Crisis & argue that he was more involved and that his willingness to contemplate active resistance developed earlier than has generally been recognized.
The article isn’t an exhaustive account of the evidence for Owen’s involvement in plotting, particularly in the period leading to the Rye House Plot. Rather, I’ve tried to frame it as the prehistory to that larger story. It represents part of that trajectory through 1679–81. The fuller case for Owen’s proximity to & involvement in the conspiratorial politics culminating in Rye House & beyond is for later.
It's open access, so I’ll post it here when it’s out.
