Mastodawn

#Wikipedia's article on #EvilMayDay does not cite much academic work past 2010, as the article has not grown much since then.

However, there has since been published stuff such as this by Brodie Waddell in 2021:

https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htab024

https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/45493/1/Waddell%20%282021%29%20The%20Evil%20May%20Day%20Riot%20of%201517%20-%20accepted%20version.pdf

Here's Waddell's tale of how the paper came about:

https://blog.history.ac.uk/2021/12/the-evil-may-day-riot-of-1517-and-the-european-union-elections-of-2014-writing-about-the-history-of-anti-immigrant-politics/

#Birkbeck #London #history

JdeBP Feb 6

Because of the Stephen Colbert show last night, a lot of people are probably going to be looking up #IanMcKellan's other performances of the #Shakespeare monologue from the play #ThomasMore .

Here's one from BBC Shakespeare Live back in 2016, with a foreword by #CatherineTate.

M. Tate says May Day. For context, the setting is specifically 1517-05-01, named Evil May Day in the #history books.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=DceEunnTA3A

#EvilMayDay #London

Ian McKellen performs speech about immigrants by Shakespeare from Thomas More (23/4/2016)

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