Nathen Amin

Tony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 28, 2023 at 08:24 UTC

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 27, 2023 at 21:20 UTC

Cheers 🍻 to the renovated Henry Tudor Inn in Shrewsbury, which reopens its doors tonight! Local tradition states that during his march to Bosworth in August 1485, Henry stayed or dined in this very building - as the building dates to 1429, it's more than plausible 🍖🍗.

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 25, 2023 at 15:33 UTC

📸 One of the most autumny pictures I've taken - Bran Castle in Transylvania, built in the late 14th century and once a Saxon frontier fortress to counter the expansionist Ottomans. In recent times, it's become regarded as 'Dracula's Castle'. It's not. Vampires don't exist 🍂🍁.

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 25, 2023 at 14:35 UTC

It's a shame that Philip the Good and Charles the Bold's ambitions in the mid-1400s to turn their patchwork territories into a unified kingdom of Burgundy didn't come off. A modern day Burgundy would have been some football team, for one.

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 22, 2023 at 20:11 UTC

Henry VII's often assumed to be the first "Beaufort" king, but other kings before him that had Beaufort blood in their veins include James II (1437-1460) and James III (1460-1488) of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, and Edward IV (1461-1483), Edward V (1483) and Richard III (1483-1485) of England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 17, 2023 at 13:22 UTC

One of the most infuriating historical myths that has taken hold in recent times is that nobody raised the idea that the Princes in the Tower had died during Richard III's reign and that we owe this idea solely to later Tudor Propaganda and Shakespeare. It's just an outright lie

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 14, 2023 at 15:03 UTC

Whilst I'm feeling sad I'm not back out in France for this game, Vera just performed a LUNG BURSTING rendition of Hen Wlad fy Nhadau. Tears in her eyes and everything 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿.

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 14, 2023 at 14:01 UTC

Fox in next door's garden is enjoying the last vestiges of summer. In autumn 🦊

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 12, 2023 at 16:58 UTC

I've revived my @Linktree_ , and I recommend all authors get one going. You can include book links, social media links, or (my aim from now on) one handy place with all event ticketing info ⤵️

linktr.ee/NathenAmin

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 12, 2023 at 11:10 UTC

In February, I'll be taking part in two candlelit talks in Southwark Cathedral. These will be big events in a glorious setting, featuring all your favourite historians. Tickets won't hang around for long.

Ticketing information for all my talks can now be found at linktr.ee/nathenamin

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 11, 2023 at 13:38 UTC

Smartphones have ensured peace, unity or even simple cordiality are harder to achieve than ever before. As we're bombarded every day by digital information, we've become a divided world armed with a portfolio of wrongs inflicted on us by 'the other side', and crave vengeance.

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 03, 2023 at 22:03 UTC

I LOVE speaking at Warwick Words Festival. It's such a well-run history festival with a great programme and a brilliantly engaged audience. Glad everyone seemed to enjoy me exploring the legend that was Thomas Beaufort, the finest man the 15th century has to offer. See you all next year!

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 03, 2023 at 22:02 UTC

One doesn't leave Warwick without saying hello to Edmund Beaufort. One of the weepers on the tomb of his father-in-law, the great Richard Beauchamp, Edmund would be ruthlessly assassinated in St Albans in 1455, at what is remembered as the first battle of the Wars of the Roses.

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 03, 2023 at 22:01 UTC

It is HUGELY important I learn that it is "de la Biere".

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 03, 2023 at 21:59 UTC

It is, yeah

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 01, 2023 at 10:05 UTC

I am led to believe, as reviews, feedback and sales suggest, that The House of Beaufort is a good book. But do not, I repeat DO NOT, pay £298 ($350) for a copy. Widely available elsewhere for the cost of two fancy high street pumpkin spice frappuccinos with whipped cream.

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 01, 2023 at 08:31 UTC

A long day of driving means I've finally caught up to date with Charlie Higson's brilliant podcast 'Willy, Willy, Harry, Ste', a chronological journey through all of England's monarchs. The latest episode on Henry VII features a FANTASTIC guest historian.

shows.acast.com/willy-willy-...

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 28, 2023 at 10:30 UTC

Did you know that Bill Clinton, who left the office of President in 2001, is *younger* than both likely candidates for the next US presidential election. That's the 2024 election, mind. 2024.

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 26, 2023 at 12:57 UTC

Not sure whether to be relieved or offended my books are not part of that AI database of 185,000 books whose intellectual property has been stolen for free. I am a NOBODY. The robots don't even respect me.

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 26, 2023 at 11:23 UTC

Good writers are good readers.

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 21, 2023 at 22:43 UTC

"Did you know Margaret Beaufort killed the Princes" "Go away, Rishi".

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 21, 2023 at 17:22 UTC

When discussing different schools within Islam, the Persian scholar Abu Hafs Umar an-Nasafi (1067-1142) mused "Our school is correct with the possibility of error, and another school is in error with the possibility of being correct". I like that principle, when extended widely.

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 21, 2023 at 10:23 UTC

😱

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 20, 2023 at 17:43 UTC

I have the same philosophy with sport 😂. The amount of airtime wasted on "it was out" or a "that was handball". Nothing is changing 😂

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 20, 2023 at 16:31 UTC

Using my new mug from History Rage Podcast, featuring one of my own quotes 😂 . Note I said "valid", not most impressive, whatever that means. The king is the king because he's the king.

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 20, 2023 at 12:48 UTC

Isn't there a way to reply to multiple people on here, i.e. in a thread?

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 20, 2023 at 12:47 UTC

Disagreeing about history is fine. Being personal is just weird.

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 20, 2023 at 09:41 UTC

On 20 September 1486, in St Swithun's Priory, Winchester, Elizabeth of York gave birth to a child who, it was hoped, would herald the dawning of a new golden age of peace and prosperity for England. By his father Henry VII, the boy was christened Arthur.

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 20, 2023 at 08:58 UTC

I've mentioned it in two recent podcasts now. Bit tired of always defending them etc. The annual bombarding of my Facebook author page by usual suspects for the Bosworth posts has irked me 😂. Stop being weird!

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 19, 2023 at 21:37 UTC

At a small event once, I was giving a talk and a bus of Battlefield Trust members came. Three Ricardians waited outside by themselves as they couldn't bring themselves to be in the same room as me 😂. So stubborn!

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 19, 2023 at 21:09 UTC

I've had several women hiss at me and hold up their fingers like a cross as well, as though I'm the devil. It makes me laugh as I'm so close to the ground with Ricardians I'm probably way more defensive on Richard and the R3S than most people. In fact, I know I am 😂.

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 19, 2023 at 20:56 UTC

Oh the stories and the screenshots I've got for over the years. My favourite is the woman who spat on the floor by me once 😂.

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 19, 2023 at 20:43 UTC

If we're quiet, they may not surface here. It's been a tough dozen or so years for me online 😂

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 19, 2023 at 20:41 UTC

My next talk is this Saturday afternoon in Chelmsford for the Essex Historical Association. The subject is Henry VII and those good old pretenders. Non-members are allowed to attend - details at the link below 👇🏾

www.history.org.uk/events/calen...

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 19, 2023 at 20:38 UTC

You're a kind man

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Nathen Amin @nathenamin.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 19, 2023 at 20:20 UTC

And me pleeeeeease.

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