The execution of William Wallace: Saint Bartholomew’s Eve, Monday 23 August 1305

Bringing William Wallace to London for execution was a departure from normal practice, and the reason seems to have been to have him executed in front of the largest audience possible, and on the feast day of an apostle who had died like one of Wallace's victims

The Montmorencys and the Abbey of Sainte Trinit�, Caen: Politics, Profit and Reform

Female religious, especially holders of benefices, made significant contributions to aristocratic family strategy and fortune in early modern France. This study of members of the wider Montmorency family in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries demonstrates the financial and political benefits derived from female benefice holding. Abbey stewards and surintendants of aristocratic households collaborated in the administration of religious revenues. Montmorency control of Sainte Trinit�, the Abbaye aux Dames, Caen, for over a century was associated with attempts to assert political influence in Normandy. Conflict ostensibly over religious reform could have a political dimension. Yet reform could be pursued vigorously by those originally cloistered for mercenary or political reasons

Bowling maidens over: 1931 and the beginnings of women's cricket in a Yorkshire town

This article focuses on the development of women's cricket in a West Yorkshire town - Brighouse - in the 1930s. It situates this subject within the context of the growth of women's cricket more generally, and goes on to explore the personality and uniqueness of women's cricket in the town. The article identifies key issues in the way that women's cricket was perceived at the time, particularly in the pages of the Brighouse & Elland Echo, the local newspaper. As such, it considers the novelty of the sport, the gender stereotyping that was an important aspect of newspaper coverage, the relationship between women's and men's cricket, and also the marketing of key fixture

Standard Model Higgs Search in the Four Jet Channel at LEP

The Standard Model Higgs boson was searched for at LEP, by the four collaborations in the year 2000, at centre-of-mass energies from 200-209GeV. An excess of events, potentially compatible with the production of a Higgs boson of mass ~115GeV was observed, largely in the four-jet channel. The search in this channel is discussed in this letter.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, 1 tabl