Imagine you were a 22-year-old who helped to build St Albans’ abbey gateway in ~1365. You would’ve already survived the Black Death (twice) and seen the captured French King paraded through the town, with the Peasants’ Revolt still to come before you turned 40. #History
I’d have a glorious, large sycamore tree sculpture emblazoned with “if you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine”.
https://t.co/W6QptHnNZU
Forget the Winter Olympics, the real sport is happening here in St Albans with the annual pancake race!! Good luck to the abbey team for their upcoming race. All in a good cause for @HomeStartHerts
St Albans cathedral wins bronze, as home to England’s third favourite stained glass window!! Well done to the Rose Window; a wonderful reflection of our glorious fenestration.
Wow. We can announce 3rd place in the hunt for the Nation's Favourite Stained Glass Window and it goes to a glorious explosion of colour created by Alan Younger ...
🥉 Rose Window at @StAlbansCath 🥉
Congratulations!
Read more about the window here ⤵️
https://t.co/JS2oFyCCaA
@hartleybun Thank you Donna, I’m glad you liked it! It’s nice to find others who share my love of both Star Wars and 12th-century history and mashing them up together!! 😊🐭🙏
885 years ago, shocking news was spreading across England: the King had been captured here at Lincoln!!
Is it possible to summarise the dramatic history of those times using only nine Star Wars-style opening crawls?
Well, Twitter, let’s buckle in and find out…
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@damianbreen1 Brilliant, thank you Damian - I’m delighted to find someone else who also fits in the Venn diagram of long Star Wars and 12th century history!! 🐭😊🙏
Well, I realise this is appealing to a slightly niche audience of those who like Star Wars and the history of the 12th-century English civil war! But I found it fun to make and I hope you enjoyed it too. 🐭🙏