in any sense of the word: https://gawainsmum.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/everyone-loves-a-mystery/
But the Templars did have lots of lovely chapels above ground. Blog post coming up soon.
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- South Welsh Transport June 4, 2019Originally posted on Official Gawain Blog: Newport M4 Deviation Scrapped Yarooo! This is one of the best decisions a politician has made for a really quite considerable number of years. Can we make him Prime Minister? He might can the…gawainsmum
- Election Literature 2019 May 22, 2019Originally posted on Official Gawain Blog: To the delight of many, we are having Euro Elections on Thursday 23rd May this year. Voters will head to the polls to choose their preferred party to represent their region in the European…gawainsmum
- Protests & Placards March 27, 2019Originally posted on Official Gawain Blog: After yesterday’s rather moody post, here is a thought-provoking and optimistic suggestion of something the Government can do to make people feel better about the (hopefully) imminent death of their flagship only policy: (Genuine…gawainsmum
- Government Response to the Petition March 27, 2019Originally posted on Official Gawain Blog: British people cast their votes once again in the 2017 General Election where over 80% of those who voted, voted for parties, including the Opposition, who committed in their manifestos to upholding the result…gawainsmum
- The Origins of the Templars: sessions at the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, July 2019 February 9, 2019I’ve organised four conference sessions on the Origins of the Military-Religious Orders (the Knights Templar, the Knights Hospitaller and the Teutonic Order). These will take place at the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, 1-4 July 2019. Click … Continue reading →gawainsmum
- Matilda 900 papers online! March 9, 2018Originally posted on Matilda 900: All of the papers from the Matilda 900 sessions at Kalamazoo and Leeds are now online! The collection also presents the concluding roundtable, recorded by Rob Pryke and transcribed by yours truly, a more informal set…gawainsmum
- Dragon-killer out of the past February 26, 2018Long, long ago — more precisely, in February 2006 — an author named Carole Wilkinson contacted me about one of the translations on my web page on Medieval Women and warfare: https://booksrus.me.uk/hn/HistoricalTexts/Women/wom5.htm#other_sources The translation in question was an episode from the … Continue reading →gawainsmum
- Travel Costs December 31, 2017Originally posted on Official Gawain Blog: An amusing little distraction for Christmas – whether you, dear reader, have spent this year travelling in the most cost-effective manner. Let us imagine that two adults wish to travel from suburban northern Newport…gawainsmum
- Clocks October 25, 2017Tuesday’s lecture to the first year students included a passing reference to the mechanical clock built at St Alban’s Abbey between around 1327 and 1336 by Abbot Richard of Wallingford (c. 1292-1336) (see J. D. North, ‘Wallingford, Richard (c.1292–1336)’, Oxford … Continue reading →gawainsmum
- Women-only carriages August 23, 2017Originally posted on Official Gawain Blog: This came up in 2015, when I wrote a long blogpost trying to delicately dismantle it that, in the end, I didn’t hit “post” on and which you have, therefore, not read. Anyway, it…gawainsmum
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