Research Archive

This archive consolidates the historical work that previously lived across Substack posts, audio episodes and paid archive entries. Where a full website edition has already been migrated, the link points to Samuel Stephen Chronicles. Where the original body text has not yet been recovered, the archive retains the original Substack route rather than inventing or reconstructing content.

1381 · Peasants’ Revolt

The revolt, its records and its distortions

• Peasants’ Revolt 1381 — Research & Sources
• The Black Death’s Golden Age
• The Corruption Machine
• From Chelmsford to Revolt
• John Ball: ‘Now Is the Time’
• John Bampton at Brentwood
• The Woman Accused of Burning the Savoy
• Joanna Ferrour and the Verdict That Stopped at the Tower
• The Mayor Who Wasn’t Alone at Smithfield
• The Tower, 1381 — Distortion Analysis
• A Future King Vanished from the Record on 14 June 1381

Land & power

The Land Record

• The Land Record — Domesday to Enclosure
• Domesday Book: What William Recorded — and What the Record Leaves Out
• Magna Carta, Land and the Price of Holding from the Crown
• Otmoor Enclosure: Common Rights into Private Property

Medieval & early modern evidence

Claims tested against the record

• King Arthur — What the Sources Actually Say
• Achilles: The Arrow, the Heel and the Thousand-Year Gap
• The Death of William Rufus, 1100
• The Disappearance of Arthur of Brittany, 1203
• Robin Hood: The Name Before the Story
• Anne Boleyn and the Indictment That Contradicted the Record
• Johnnie Armstrong of Gilnockie — What the Record Actually Says
• The Trial of Agnes Sampson — What the Record Actually Says
• The Death of Amy Robsart — What the Record Actually Says
• Charles I: The King Who Refused the Court
• The Confession That Couldn’t Be True — Robert Hubert and the Great Fire
• The Princes in the Tower: What the Primary Sources Actually Prove
• The Urn and the Evidence

Historical crime

Record, ruling and later story

• The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811 — The Record
• The Road Hill House Murder, 1860 — The Record
• The Jane Clouson Case, 1871
• The Wainwright ‘Trunk Murder’, 1875 — The Record
• Kate Webster, 1879 — The Record
• The Killing of Julia Martha Thomas — Richmond, 1879
• The Phoenix Park Murders, 1882
• The Amelia Dyer Case, 1896 — The Record
• The Crippen Case
• Frederick Seddon, 1912 — The Record
• The Bermondsey Murder, 1849 — What the Record Establishes
• Mary Ann Cotton and the Number Nobody Proved

Institutions & state power

Mercia, administration and durable authority

• The Mercian Series
• Æthelstan and the Architecture of Power
• The Lady’s Fortresses
• Bangor and the Institutional Model of Irish Monasticism
• Administrative Violence in History

Exploration, local history & public history

Beyond the courtroom

• Francisco de Orellana and the Voyage That Named the Amazon
• The Record That Would Not Stop
• St Patrick’s Day — The History Beneath the Green
• Beneath the Bridge of Ballyskeagh
• The Ball at the Church Door

Migration policy

The substantial historical work will continue to move onto Samuel Stephen Chronicles as the permanent canonical home. Audio-only duplicates, membership notices and obsolete fiction drafts are not treated as separate historical articles. Where body text is unavailable, the original post remains linked here until it can be migrated accurately.