Had this exact same ... 'discussion' with someone in a very hot field at the weekend, while dressed entirely in wool 😂
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In the beer tent?
aug 27, 2025, 10:56 am • 0 0 • view
No, worse – on the march!
aug 27, 2025, 10:57 am • 0 0 • view
I had such bad 'pikeman's crotch' once, that I stayed in my tent whimpering all evening.
aug 27, 2025, 11:08 am • 1 0 • view
Worcester?
aug 27, 2025, 11:05 am • 0 0 • view
Yep. Still scraping the dust off everything.
aug 27, 2025, 11:44 am • 0 0 • view
I'm an ex-Gerrard
aug 27, 2025, 12:24 pm • 1 0 • view
I have every sympathy with you on that! I am not being entirely serious as you might have gathered (but not entirely flippant, either). We really shouldn't take this sort of thing dogmatically, especially while wearing wool in full sunshine.
aug 27, 2025, 10:50 am • 3 0 • view
I'm a soundly 'Three Kingdoms' man, but even then you've got to explain a fair deal. John Rees' recent book on the 'Fiery Spirits' is a good other side to Adamson's 'Noble Revolt', a revolution from above AND below.
aug 27, 2025, 11:45 am • 0 0 • view
But yes, once you start trying to create clear lines between things you realise the ground is made of sand...
aug 27, 2025, 11:46 am • 4 0 • view
This is it. And what makes doing/reading about history interesting and worthwhile, hopefully. The sense that any question has probably been asked before and that, depending on available evidence and our position, answers can change. This is allowed, and healthy.
aug 27, 2025, 12:04 pm • 3 0 • view