Dr Tom Brautigam

PhD #earlymodern history, University of Edinburgh: #17thCentury radicals: #Levellers & godly social networks. Occasional secondary teacher.

[Dr Tom Brautigam @tomb1649]

Today I'm using an original handwritten, vellum copy of 'An Agreement of the People'!
Even as a lifelong vegetarian I'm so excited I want to hug it!
#Levellers #17thCentury

[Dr Tom Brautigam @tomb1649]

@DrFrancisYoung @HCAatEdinburgh Thank you!
If Lilburne happened to own cufflinks then they would have been the right of every Freeborn Englishman. If not, they’d probably have been an idolatrous innovation!! 😅

[Dr Tom Brautigam @tomb1649]

Not sure my authentic Leveller cufflinks added any credibility (the band not 17thC radicals), but I finally completed my viva.

Thank you to Prof. David Como & Dr. Tycko for a very fair and enjoyable discussion.

#VivaSurvivor #Levellers #17thCentury

[Dr Tom Brautigam @tomb1649]

@Pierce1Roger @HCAatEdinburgh The band’s website, but it was a few years ago now!

[Dr Tom Brautigam @tomb1649]

Luna found voting fantastic, even with no official ID.
#dogsatpollingstations

[Dr Tom Brautigam @tomb1649]

@SocialHistoryOx The new Turing Test for artificial intelligence should be whether it can workout the true publication year for pamphlets printed in January, February or March!

[Dr Tom Brautigam @tomb1649]

@emilyrosehay You made a vey convincing case!

[Dr Tom Brautigam @tomb1649]

@SocialHistoryOx Absolutely. I also think it’s the biggest difference between how school and undergraduate history is taught. By focusing on narratives, schools set up the ones that continue on to uni for a big shock.

[Dr Tom Brautigam @tomb1649]

@SocialHistoryOx Agreed, it can be great fun. Just a little text heavy sometimes which can be off putting.
The Mr Gradgrind school of FACTS approach can certainly be just as off putting though!

[The Cromwell Museum @MuseumCromwell]

#OnThisDay 15 November 1647 the Corkbush Field Mutiny near Ware. At a muster of New Modelled Army troops two unauthorised regiments threatened mutiny. Fairfax & Cromwell confronted the troops; 3 ringleaders arrested. Richard Arnold shot as an example. #17thCentury #OTD #Levellers

[Dr Tom Brautigam @tomb1649]

@InquisitiveTea2 Yes please. Would you mind sending me the link? Thank you!

[Dr Tom Brautigam @tomb1649]

@DannyBuckUEA ‘Excuse me, do you accept Free Quarter?’
‘No, sorry, only contactless.’

[The World Turned Upside Down @world_turned]

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[Civil War Petitions @cwpetitions]

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[International John Bunyan Society @BunyanSociety]

#OTD 22 May 1649 the word 'whaticall'ams' was used euphemistically by a cheeky #parliamentarian newsbook to describe a frustrated #Royalist-#Leveller alliance in the summer of 1649. It went on to implicate John Lilburne (Mercurius Brittanicus, 22nd-29th May 1649, E.556[27].

[The Cromwell Museum @MuseumCromwell]

#OnThisDay 17 May 1649 three of the #Levellers deemed to have been ringleaders of those captured at #Burford in #Oxfordshire were executed by firing squad for mutiny. The remaining prisoners were pardoned by Lord General Sir Thomas Fairfax. #17thCentury #OTD #EnglishCivilWar

[Dr Tom Brautigam @tomb1649]

@CapelLofft Good thing he won the leadership election or he may have had to attempt Penny Mordaunt’s job of carrying that giant sword!! 😂

[Marc Morris @Longshanks1307]

Fair play to Charles for going with the full coronation mohican, first time since 1377.

[Jonathan Healey @SocialHistoryOx]

When the Leveller Samuel Chidley worked for the Republican government in 1650 he got in trouble with his superiors for refusing to write 'In the year of our Lord' on documents, because it implied that God was only 1,650 years old.

[Dr Tom Brautigam @tomb1649]

@EdinUniAFAF @EnglishRadical Yes! Bonnie Besses in Sea-green dresses.
Sadly they only tend to come into view when they were needed to get the male Levellers out of trouble. Katherine Chidley and Elizabeth Lilburne were very active throughout the period though.