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13th century Exchequer records, crosswords, old movies - what else is there?

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Michaelmas daisies in the front garden, to remind you that it is the last day of the Exchequer year.
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Relaxing, having finished checking 800 pages of proofs for the long-awaited edition of the 1259 pipe roll. Pipe roll fans will have to contain their impatience until December. boydellandbrewer.com/9780901…
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Thanks to the Pipe Roll Society for inviting me to deliver their annual lecture at The National Archives yesterday, and particularly to @pablodiablo74 for setting up the display of documents.
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For anyone interested in pipe roll research and publication who was unable to attend in person, the slides and text are now on Academia: academia.edu/121522530/Pipe_…
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About this time next week, if you happen to be at The National Archives, you could drop in to the Pipe Roll Society annual lecture, about pipe rolls, oddly enough: eventbrite.co.uk/e/pipe-roll…
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At the shrine of Thomas Cantilupe, Montfortian chancellor, bishop and saint, in Hereford cathedral.
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The shrine of St Alban. At the cathedral today for a requiem for Mike Clasby, fellow-student at KCL, who wrote a booklet about the saint and the shrine. RIP.
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Still plodding through the 1258-59 receipt roll. Tedium slightly lessened by finding, within a few lines of each other, payments from William Pig and William Hog.
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Transcribing a receipt roll (E 401/60, for rolls fans) has just been brightened up by discovering a Norfolk village called Pudding Norton.
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Received today, Analecta Hibernica 53 from @irishmanuscript with fascinating articles and photos about the destruction (and survival) of Irish records following the 1922 catastrophe in the Dublin PRO. And what's more ...
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an article by @ElizabethCBiggs and @pablodiablo74 with transcription and translation of a document concerning corruption in the Irish exchequer in the 1280s. I know only too well that parts of it look like this, so this is a very welcome resource.
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While we were in Lincoln, a quick visit to Robert Grosseteste was obligatory.
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In Lincoln for a conference about Doris and Frank Stenton, so I had to have a coffee in this café on the High Bridge, where the Stentons and Canon Foster met in 1923 to discuss reviving the Pipe Roll Society. No blue plaque.
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Still plenty of time to register and join us @BGULincoln on 11 November for our conference remembering the immense legacy of Sir Frank and Lady Doris Stenton. Speakers include the amazing @MedievalFemina and @rjcassidy. Various tickets available eventbrite.com/e/stenton-leg…
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Looking forward to Monday's online GIRO seminar. For the details and list of speakers please see: emea01.safelinks.protection.…
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Just arrived - volume II of the book which makes Powicke’s Henry III and the Lord Edward look perfunctory. Good index, too.
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