Thread by @MiyamotoBen

#medievaltwitter my 12 year old has started writing a historical fiction remash of robin hood and peasants revolts. (Yes, @ me, that’ll tell her). She needs names 1) historically appropriate for peasants 2) « not, like, really ugly »
We need your help 1/

Yes, #earlymodern I did try to impress her with the benefits of setting it in the #18c but she wasn’t interested with heroes called Catherine Hayes, Squire Nonsuchfool or Jeanne-Joseph-Françoise de la Baume Esperges de Quitterie 2/

She also needs the name of an English town where peasants would have met both weavers and foreigners at the fair because that’s part of the mystery plot and she doesn’t want to be told off by #medievaltwitter. And no, Nottingham doesn’t work. Already taken.3/

And all this is #HATM ´s fault, because we watched Robin Hood Prince of Thieves with you. She both hugely enjoyed the film (🤦🏼‍♀️) and discovered it was for all the wrong reasons listening to your comments, so now she’s got acute historian’s guilt...

Thanks to @DoctaLectrix we’ve been introduced to the brilliant medieval death bot @DeathMedieval. We’ve now got names for the heroes: Azeline & Copin. Also warning you that the bot is addictive, and « Death in Winchester » is going to rival #midsomermurders