"The office of hogreeve was among the earliest elected offices to exist in colonial North America"
"The office originated in Anglo-Saxon England, when hogreeves would be stationed at the doors of cathedrals during services to prevent swine from entering the church."
When English people learn about history in schools they do the Norman conquest, Tudors and Stuarts*, possibly the “Industrial Revolution” and then World War 1 and World War 2.
It struck me that learning about Tudors and Stuarts (actually they just learn about one Stuart: James I) without mentioning the fact that the second Stuart ended up getting beheaded in a revolution is crazy.
It’d be like learning about the reigns of the last of the Russian Tzars without mentioning the October Revolution. Or studying Louis XIV, XV etc without discussing how France was soon to be a republic.
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#OnThisDay, 7 Apr 1141, Matilda is legally recognised as ruler of England in her own right. Her coronation never happens.
She was appointed heir by her father Henry I, then usurped by her cousin Stephen after Henry’s death. The civil war between the cousins is known as the Anarchy and lasted from 1138 to 1153.
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#OnThisDay, 12 Mar 1994, the first 32 women are ordained as priests in the Church of England. Angela Berners-Wilson was the very first.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #EnglishHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 15 Jan 1559, Elizabeth Tudor is crowned as Queen Elizabeth of England. She reigned alone until her death in 1603.
Her foreign policy included privateering, colonising Virginia and approving the start of the East India Company.
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#OnThisDay, 1 Oct 1553, Mary Tudor is crowned Queen of England: the first queen of England to get as far as a coronation and to rule in her own name.
During her reign, 280 religious dissenters were burned at the stake by her order, earning her the nickname ‘bloody Mary’ by her Protestant opponents.
We’ve written about her predecessor and why Mary may have signed her death warrant: carvehername.org.uk/lady-jane-…
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We look at Lady Jane Grey and her place in history. How and why did she end up as a missing queen? It's a very Tudor succession plot.MP&MH (Carve Her Name)
