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At history museum in Swedish and overheard a tour guide telling the tourists, “there was no such thing as Sweden, no one thought of themselves as a Swede. There were no Vikings. It was a part time job maybe. Warriors were very rare as well” Absolutely determined to make everything rubbish

Help me make a list of 20th century English writers who weren't racist

>visiting me kiwi mate >“you’re good cunts here mate tie me kangaroo down sport we need an aotearoa-style name for australia like you have mate” >“ah yeah nah bro you’ve gotta show a bit of respect to the tangata whenua eh” >“bloody oath mate it’s a real gallipoli in aus” >post online “any of you cunts know any aboriginal names for australia deadset I double-take every time I hear it cobber” >some dickhead cunt comments “you’re trying too hard dickhead cunt” >ah mate I just cracked it >angrily type “racist dickhead cunt good one mate reckon settler colonialism’s a bloody laugh then mate dickhead bogan cunt racist cunt is that what we’re doing now?” >he replies “still running on woke 1.0 dickhead cunt?” >fire back “shithead dickhead cunt mate yeah nah you’re a bad bad cunt you are mate sick in the head racist dickhead cunt” >he calls me a naarmgroid cunt and blocks me

It's so sad how bad George R. R. Martin was with heraldry

Great to see another firmly modernising move from the Royal Family

ok this is the craziest transatlantic difference I've seen, wtf. a CROTCHET

John Wycliffe is one of my heroes. His passion, conviction, and desire to get the Word of God into the hands of the people. This week I was able to look at our earliest surviving copy of Wycliffe’s English Bible. The Wycliffe Bible was produced in the late 1300s, roughly 1382–1395, making it the first complete English rendering of the Bible, over 200 years before the King James Version of 1611. If you look closely you’ll notice it’s handwritten, not printed. Every copy had to be produced by scribes. This was before printing arrived in England, so owning a Wycliffe Bible meant owning a massive, labor-intensive manuscript. It became a medieval bestseller. More than 250 Wycliffite Bible manuscripts survive, which is extraordinary for a banned or controversial medieval English text. Only about 20 of those are complete Bibles.The copy you see me looking at in this picture — one of two I was able to take a look at — includes Genesis to Isaiah. The other one was a Wycliffe New Testament from 1390. It was risky after 1408–1409 to produce and own one of these. The Archbishop of Canterbury at the time, Thomas Arundel, restricted unauthorized new Scripture translations and public reading of Wycliffe-associated texts. So later possession or use of these copies could become religiously dangerous, especially if linked with the Wycliffe followers, known as Lollards. Also, take a look at the last image, a calendar at the front of the second smaller Wycliffe Bible we looked at, from 1390. At the bottoms of the page the scribe has written: “Anno Domini 1348, in festo Sancti Michaelis Magni, evenit prima pestilentia Londoni” — “In the year of our Lord 1348, on the feast of St. Michael the Great, the first plague occurred in London.”