An exclusive audio-tour around the grounds of the extraordinary Wilmington Priory. Plus... Tournament heroes! Original sin! Oliver Cromwell! And TV lizards!
Dan, you have created an incredible, VOLUNTARY community based on LEARNING! That is a remarkable achievement in and of itself, not to mention your brilliant books and videos. I feel like I'm getting to know a bunch of really smart, insightful people based on reading their questions and comments to your musings. Thank you and also James Tanton, Amanda Chard and the other folks who were so kind when we met at the Chelsea History Festival in September. You have created an Phenomenon and it's terrific to be a small part of it! One Love indeed!
Great recording thanks Dan - I asked my dentist about how people dealt with root infections in the Middle Ages - he said they didn’t- in fact it is not uncommon to see bones cracked in the jawline of Medieval skulls where the abscess had burst through
Would be great to hear more about medical malpractice particularly pre Tudor
Time travel-wise, I think the discovery of antibiotics would have more bearing on when I'd travel to rather than painkillers, not really keen on say, getting a small cut or graze that then gets infected, develops into septicaemia and then that's the end of me.
Thanks for your answer on the Cromwell question, Dan! As a fellow castle lover, I can’t help but blame Oliver Cromwell for us not having so many more awesome castles to visit. As you’ll know, Royalist strongholds like Winchester, Oxford and Bristol had big, impressive castles, and thanks to Cromwell’s slighting of them, barely anything’s left to put these castles on the map. Kind of glad Charles II had him dug up after death, hanged and decapitated… That’ll learn him lol!
I have always been in the Thomas (and Henry's sense of self) camp on destruction but I think you are right Marc with the destruction of Castles and churches. Do you think though that some of it was the advancement of war machines and then the destruction of Church beauty the Puritanical beliefs (Iconoclastic European sentiment) that did for castles and churches? All led by the figure head of Oliver yes and again the ego of one person.. I do agree with the end of Oliver though... Very fitting
We have a Wilmington in Massachusetts. It’s really astounding to me when I hear English towns and cities with our same names KNOWING perfectly well that they were named after a English cities 😂🤣🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ #americanproblems
I live not too far from Boston, Lincolnshire. However, I think you have a tad more of a historical impact with Boston, Massachusetts. Wasn't Wilmington also part of some War too? 😉Think I may go have a cup of tea and think about that one.. 🤔
Thanks for answering my question - I must also add, as an anaesthetist, that men with tattoos are often the most anxious about people coming at them with proper needles...keep up the yoga!
Well now I want to sit in the garden at Wilmington priory (on a hot sunny day!) and gab with Dan about Thomas Cromwell all afternoon. I became enamored of Cromwell after watching James Frain's portrayal of him in "The Tudors" and subsequently read everything about him I could find. Ruthless efficiency is incredibly sexy.
My dreams of bureaucratic glory went up in flames in 2016. I defended my doctoral thesis one week before the November election and I'd passed the rigorous State Department interviews with flying colors. Then dumb Mussolini won the election, and I became a middling academic instead. I've never been interested in running for office, the limelight is not where I shine. I was born to be the chief of staff; loyal, ruthless, and efficient. Game recognizes game, and Thomas Cromwell definitely had game. More game than the king, which cost him his life.
I didn't intent to listen to this on a cold Sunday morning, bundled up on the couch with my coffee, waiting for the central heating to work it's magic, but this is absolutely perfect.
As someone actively working toward their teaching degree, your "backstory" was fascinating. I wish you would expand more on how to tell history's stories in empathic, engaging ways. That sort of transcends teaching as well, doesn't it? I find your book Powers and Thrones empathic and engaging.
Just catching up and enjoying every word and letter. Thank you, Dan. I particularly enjoyed the willow sculptures...lovely. Wish we had more willow to try that in our garden. So many great questions get me off track from thinking of my own, but I am curious as to the history of greetings: a kiss or two...or three, on each cheek, or a handshake, or a forearm grasp. I know a bit of the American versions of how and why, but what are a few reasons for the greeting, as it has developed? Thanks much!
Thank you for answering my question! Helped me pass through some of my workday pruning things. I will look up those books you mentioned. That makes sense about the younger sons doing the tournaments. So was there a whole following of people who lived off following the tournaments around (vendors or some such people)?
Awesome questions and answers today!! Totally agree that a inspirational teacher can open up and cultivate a life long interest in a subject. I too had a great teacher in History who was a wonderful story teller, that made history especially medieval exciting and intriguing, which left me always wanting to know more. Although history is not my career I love reading it, listening to it and watching it, thank you Mrs. O'Brien and Dan Jones for feeding my constant wanting for more! And as always a great description of the Priory :)
Bit late getting to your podcast today, but thank you! Must have been amazing having David Starkey as one of your lecturers, was he deliberately controversial then too.
Which brings to to a question which I ask myself when reading or watching historians like yourself, Susannah Lipscombe, Helen Castor, Bethany Hughes, Lucy Worsley, etc etc. You all have distinctive writing or broadcasting styles- did your own distinctive story telling, conversational style arrive naturally or was it cultivated to attract viewers, readers? It’s certainly a gift you possess!
Dan, you have created an incredible, VOLUNTARY community based on LEARNING! That is a remarkable achievement in and of itself, not to mention your brilliant books and videos. I feel like I'm getting to know a bunch of really smart, insightful people based on reading their questions and comments to your musings. Thank you and also James Tanton, Amanda Chard and the other folks who were so kind when we met at the Chelsea History Festival in September. You have created an Phenomenon and it's terrific to be a small part of it! One Love indeed!
Great recording thanks Dan - I asked my dentist about how people dealt with root infections in the Middle Ages - he said they didn’t- in fact it is not uncommon to see bones cracked in the jawline of Medieval skulls where the abscess had burst through
Would be great to hear more about medical malpractice particularly pre Tudor
I cannot imagine how painful that would be! They did pull teeth out pretty frequently - also not comfortable.
Time travel-wise, I think the discovery of antibiotics would have more bearing on when I'd travel to rather than painkillers, not really keen on say, getting a small cut or graze that then gets infected, develops into septicaemia and then that's the end of me.
Application of honey to the injury site would kill bacteria. Happy time traveling. 😁
I was thinking the same thing
Thanks for your answer on the Cromwell question, Dan! As a fellow castle lover, I can’t help but blame Oliver Cromwell for us not having so many more awesome castles to visit. As you’ll know, Royalist strongholds like Winchester, Oxford and Bristol had big, impressive castles, and thanks to Cromwell’s slighting of them, barely anything’s left to put these castles on the map. Kind of glad Charles II had him dug up after death, hanged and decapitated… That’ll learn him lol!
I have always been in the Thomas (and Henry's sense of self) camp on destruction but I think you are right Marc with the destruction of Castles and churches. Do you think though that some of it was the advancement of war machines and then the destruction of Church beauty the Puritanical beliefs (Iconoclastic European sentiment) that did for castles and churches? All led by the figure head of Oliver yes and again the ego of one person.. I do agree with the end of Oliver though... Very fitting
We have a Wilmington in Massachusetts. It’s really astounding to me when I hear English towns and cities with our same names KNOWING perfectly well that they were named after a English cities 😂🤣🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ #americanproblems
I live not too far from Boston, Lincolnshire. However, I think you have a tad more of a historical impact with Boston, Massachusetts. Wasn't Wilmington also part of some War too? 😉Think I may go have a cup of tea and think about that one.. 🤔
Sick for the second time thanks to covid. So thanks Dan for another great First Draft! Lifted me up
Oh no! Feel better soon
Thanks for answering my question - I must also add, as an anaesthetist, that men with tattoos are often the most anxious about people coming at them with proper needles...keep up the yoga!
Well now I want to sit in the garden at Wilmington priory (on a hot sunny day!) and gab with Dan about Thomas Cromwell all afternoon. I became enamored of Cromwell after watching James Frain's portrayal of him in "The Tudors" and subsequently read everything about him I could find. Ruthless efficiency is incredibly sexy.
My dreams of bureaucratic glory went up in flames in 2016. I defended my doctoral thesis one week before the November election and I'd passed the rigorous State Department interviews with flying colors. Then dumb Mussolini won the election, and I became a middling academic instead. I've never been interested in running for office, the limelight is not where I shine. I was born to be the chief of staff; loyal, ruthless, and efficient. Game recognizes game, and Thomas Cromwell definitely had game. More game than the king, which cost him his life.
I didn't intent to listen to this on a cold Sunday morning, bundled up on the couch with my coffee, waiting for the central heating to work it's magic, but this is absolutely perfect.
❤️
As someone actively working toward their teaching degree, your "backstory" was fascinating. I wish you would expand more on how to tell history's stories in empathic, engaging ways. That sort of transcends teaching as well, doesn't it? I find your book Powers and Thrones empathic and engaging.
Just catching up and enjoying every word and letter. Thank you, Dan. I particularly enjoyed the willow sculptures...lovely. Wish we had more willow to try that in our garden. So many great questions get me off track from thinking of my own, but I am curious as to the history of greetings: a kiss or two...or three, on each cheek, or a handshake, or a forearm grasp. I know a bit of the American versions of how and why, but what are a few reasons for the greeting, as it has developed? Thanks much!
I have been browsing the Landmark Trust link and I am revising my bucket list😍
Thank you for answering my question! Helped me pass through some of my workday pruning things. I will look up those books you mentioned. That makes sense about the younger sons doing the tournaments. So was there a whole following of people who lived off following the tournaments around (vendors or some such people)?
Awesome questions and answers today!! Totally agree that a inspirational teacher can open up and cultivate a life long interest in a subject. I too had a great teacher in History who was a wonderful story teller, that made history especially medieval exciting and intriguing, which left me always wanting to know more. Although history is not my career I love reading it, listening to it and watching it, thank you Mrs. O'Brien and Dan Jones for feeding my constant wanting for more! And as always a great description of the Priory :)
Bit late getting to your podcast today, but thank you! Must have been amazing having David Starkey as one of your lecturers, was he deliberately controversial then too.
Which brings to to a question which I ask myself when reading or watching historians like yourself, Susannah Lipscombe, Helen Castor, Bethany Hughes, Lucy Worsley, etc etc. You all have distinctive writing or broadcasting styles- did your own distinctive story telling, conversational style arrive naturally or was it cultivated to attract viewers, readers? It’s certainly a gift you possess!
Thanks!!! Can't thank you enough for these amazing moments of joy!