Remarkably, archaeologists have even been able to identify the owners of the building, which was known at the time as Helle: a capmaker called John de Flete and his wife, Cassandra. “So what I love about this is that we know the names of the people whose bottoms probably sat on it,...
named after Waterloo, was something of a turning point for the working classes in the nineteenth century. The meeting in Manchester asking for universal male suffrage ended in chaos and 11 deaths when the authorities seized Henry Hunt, a
He married his brother’s widow, Catherine of Aragon when he became King, but divorced her when she did not produce a male heir to the throne. In order to gain his divorce, Henry had to establish the Church of England and end Catholicism. Henry went on to marry another five wives – ...
similarly made of wood, covered with leather and with a cup-shape mouthpiece. The various names for this instrument – cornet, cornett, cornetto, or zink – all mean little horn. (This cornett is now always spelt with two ‘t’s to distinguish it from the altogether different brass valved...
On the other hand. In his treaty of hunting from 1330, Twiti states the wolf as one of the few animals that you blow the Meneé for, and both the male and the female wolf to boot! This duality in looking at the wolf is probably because it is a difficult animal to hunt par force...
When we look at the work done on the male saints we notice Mary’s depiction seems to be the ecstatic rolled back eyes, which were supposed to be the “It” expression of devotion, but only the women seem to be shown this way. In every single chasuble that was created for the church...
- Names of some farm animals. - No snow on the mountains in the map background. - In the caves the models load too late resulting in visible holes in the terrain. - Going to bed at the end of the season triggers a double change of season. - Fall damage is miscalculated. ...
Not everyone was as enlightened as Hildegard, of course. The prevalent belief during the middle ages was that the female body was inferior to the male. This is exemplified by a diagram of the so-called “disease woman” (from the Wellcome Apocalypse, c1420), which was the only popularly ...
Ken has no male parts. Barbie is smooth as a bean. So is this new doll somehow more obviously gender-neutral? Does it somehow manage to surpass nature (which has already constructed 7 year olds to be remarkably free of the trappings and restrictions of the gender binary, if only we’d ...
usurping the established bloodline. His bold pre-invasion claims of hereditary right failed to feature in Parliament’s assent to his sovereignty in 1485, and the age-old passage of the crown to the nearest male relative had been overturned in favour of a line prohibited from inheriting it....