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History shapes our present and our future. Join me and Katie Kirkpatrick of Off the Mall Tours DC as we explore the stories that matter to our democracy.

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The Sothertons, a wealthy family of grocers, lived at Strangers' Hall from around 1525 to 1610. Nicholas Sotherton, Mayor in 1539, added the fine oriel window which overlooks the garden.

#Norwich #Strangershall #houses #Historymatters #orielwindow

Black soldiers fought for freedom abroad while fighting for equality at home. Their contributions helped shape this nation, yet their sacrifices have too often been overlooked. We honor their service by telling the full truth about our history. ✊🏾🇺🇸 #BlackVeterans #HistoryMatters

This is an Enameled cristallo stem glass, made around 1500 and kept in the Louvre in Paris. Catherine would have drunk out of something similar as queen.

#comingsoon #historicalfiction #Historymatters #historynerd #catherinehoward

Civilan & his wife were buried in 1530.
These are rubbings of the brasses from their tomb at Binham Priory. The wife brass was stolen June 1989.
#theft #brassrubbings #Church #priory
#Historymatters

#remember #myvienna #historymatters 📙📕⤵️

The real ladies of Henry VIlI's Royal Court.
#Historymatters #henryvili #Tudor #realwomen #historicalfiction

What if the Second World War wasn’t only a European story? 🌍
Africa’s resources, trade and history were deeply connected to events that shaped the world.

📖 The Handle Is One of Us — Damola Awoyokun

#AfricanHistory #WWIIHistory #HiddenHistory #HistoryMatters #TheHandleIsOneOfUs

This is the stained glass window at the top of the stairs in the Elizabethan House Museum in Great Yarmouth UK.

#ElizabethI #Historymatters #historynerd #historicalfiction #stainedglasssunday

Miles Corbet was the Member of Parliament for Yarmouth and was the last signatory to the death warrant of the King. He was executed for regicide when Charles I's son, charles II came to the throne.
#Englishcivilwar #charlesl #historicalfiction #historymatters #historynerd

From West Africa to Queen Victoria’s court — Sarah Forbes Bonetta’s remarkable life reveals a history far bigger than one extraordinary story.

📖 The Handle Is One of Us — Damola Awoyokun

#TheHandleIsOneOfUs #AfricanHistory #BlackHistory #HiddenHistory #HistoryMatters

What connects slavery, American cotton, Nigeria and Winston Churchill? 🧵
History has a surprising way of connecting the dots.

📖 The Handle is One of Us by Damola Awoyokun

#History #HiddenHistory #Nigeria #WinstonChurchill #HistoryMatters

This textbook is only mentioning Emmett Till in passing and glossing over his significance, it's clear they're watering down Black History to make it more palatable for white audiences. This is what our kids are being taught, and it's a problem.

Source

#Education #Segregation #HistoryMatters

Historically, comfrey has been grown for its bone healing properties since 400 BC.

In folklore, travellers kept comfrey to keep them safe and to keep their partners faithful whilst away!

#comfrey #herbs #herbalists #historynerd #Historymatters

Five iron 12th century rotary keys for mounted locks for doors that no longer exist at Binham Priory.
Four with kidney shaped bows and one with heart shaped bow.

#Historymatters #keys #12thcentury
#Norwich #historicalfiction

Victorian kitchen gadgets. #Victorian #Kitchen #gadgets #Historymatters #historicalfiction

These look like traditional English earthenware but they are reproductions.

They were not mass produced, they carry the slight asymmetries and glaze pooling that mark hand‑thrown work.

#pottery #earthenware #slipware #Historymatters #historicalfiction

This is Bircham Windmill. In the nineteenth century more than 300 mills worked across Norfolk.

Very few survive now, and Bircham is one of the rare examples that still shows its full height.

#windmill #birchamwindmill #Norfolk #Historymatters #historynerd

This is a 12th century seal of the Priory of St Mary Binham in Norfolk England which is now a C of E church. The Virgin has a halo and the dove between them symbolises the Holy Spirit.

#12thcentury #Historymatters #historynerd #Church #Sunday

It is the Land of Enchantment.

It is New MEXICO.

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