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Medieval Musings

Holly A Brown, Maggie Desbaillets, Dr David Musgrove
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  • Holly A Brown

    Historian, writer, and Archaeology PhD student at Oxford University. Your guide to all things medieval(ish) here on Substack.

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    American historian, but always in the enigma of Russian history | intersecting literature & history | terror belli, decus pacis

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    Dr David Musgrove is content director of HistoryExtra.com, plus its sister print magazine BBC History Magazine. He has a PhD in archaeology. He is author of '100 Places that made Britain' and with Michael Lewis, 'The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry'.

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