17th Century Scottish Soldiers Identified from Mass Graves [Battle of Dunbar]

Popular Archaeology ^ | Wednesday, September 2, 2015 | Durham University/Scottish Soldiers Project

[colorado tanker]

The New Model Army was perhaps the best army in Europe in its day. Cromwell used then radical reforms like employing the soldiers as professionals and appointing officers based on military merit and not social standing. The Army was quite cohesive as most of the soldiers shared Cromwell's religious view.

The surprising part about the English conquest of Scotland is, why did they want it? :’)

To give the English monarchs a nice cool summer palace?

[SunkenCiv]

Andy Parsons joked (on Mock the Week) that some large number they were trying to figure out context was the number of years before climate change turned Scotland into a viable holiday destination.

[LadyDoc]

isotope analysis can figure out where you lived by what you ate when the bones were formed. link

[Jessarah]

What??? We’re watching “Wolf Hall”(series about Thomas Cromwell) and are about 3 episodes in. He was so nice to the king (so far). Can’t believe he ends up being beheaded.

[SunkenCiv]

In the Showtime series “The Tudors” H8 berates his councillors for convincing him to execute Cromwell. When the real H8 died, one of his lifelong chums was one night’s sleep away from execution, it was lucky that the syphilis got the king first.

My favorite movie (and keeping in mind that Hollywood doesn’t make documentaries) about that court remains “A Man For All Seasons”, I viewed that a couple weeks ago for the first time in a while (generally I don’t watch it more than once a year) and had a strong emotional response.