#look. yes we should be sceptical that what st john hope's saw was hair matted with blood since he had no medical training and it was 1910
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god spare me from articles about Henry VI's death written by Ricardians going, "how do we even know Henry VI was murdered? huh? huh? Tudor propaganda!!"
#blog#henry vi#the death of henry vi#look w j white has some good points but it's buried under a lot of defensive ricardian posturing#and i do not appreciate that he straight up says w. h. st john hope invented the story about some of henry's hair being matted with blood#look. yes we should be sceptical that what st john hope's saw was hair matted with blood since he had no medical training and it was 1910#...but how are we in the position to claim he invented the story? not a single one of us has seen henry's remains#st john hope was recording what he witnessed and he clearly believed it was probably blood#he says that there were some pieces of the broken skull that still had some of the hair attached#he says the hair was brown in colour 'save in one places where it was much darker and *apparently* matted with blood'#(my emphasis)#which leaves the possibility open that it wasn't blood#it also seems unlikely that if the blood-like substance was something used in the embalming process#that it only appears one one piece of the skull#and shut up about tudor propaganda
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