The Historical Aspects of Dilipad: Challenges and Opportunities

This post originally appeared on the Digging into Linked Parliamentary Data project blog, and is a guest post by one of the historians working the project, Luke Blaxill. The Dilipad project is on one hand exciting because it will allow us to investigate ambitious...

Bawling bishops, pugnacious prelates and crying crusaders

My previous post on the range of history material being published opened with the early modern view of masculinity and men crying. Go back a couple of hundred years and it seems men were allowed to cry, and at least if you were a bishop, the act was deemed...