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My research sometimes turns up something that makes me smile. This time it happened because I want to know exactly when the two branches of the River Tyburn that enter the Thames at Westminster (and thus formed Thorney Island) were actually covered over. The abbey and palace at Westminster once stood upon this island, of…
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… ie dating from the era immediately after Richard III, in particular from Mary I and Philip to Charles I. These were found under the floorboards of a West Dorset house by Robert and Becky Fooks, having been hidden during the Civil War, to be auctioned shortly for about £20,000.
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Maryann Benbow has blogged extensively here on the death of Edward IV and the Wydeville Plot that followed. The golden gander had passed away early that spring. We don’t know conclusively how or precisely when, but the events surrounding it and the effects upon Edward V’s reign and family are covered in five posts.
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… brought to you by Alex Marchant‘s The Order of the White Boar … Here, Wendy Johnson, one of the Finding Richard team discusses applying her accrued background knowledge to writing her first novel.
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As a friend has pointed out, how very pleasing to see an old house like this without an ugly topping of huge Tudor chimneys. What a difference it makes. Sharrington Hall, near Holt in Norfolk, is a truly beautiful old property which the agents Savills describe as a “….Historic Grade II* Jacobean Hall dating back…
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In 1958-1960, when I lived just outside Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, I remember that about 1.74 miles/2.80 kilometres from my home I often passed an old farm close to a parish church. I simply noticed, that’s all. Back then I wasn’t particularly interested in history. I was a teenager, more concerned with the likes of Buddy Holly,…
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In 1374 the Langley estates in Lancashire were left to 9-year-old Roger de Langley. On behalf of the boy’s guardian, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the Sheriff of Lancashire took control of the Langley estates and its young heir during the boy’s minority. It was the law for heirs who were minors to be…
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Conisbrough Castle and the House of York.
Anne Mortimer, Beaufort family., Civil War, collieries, Conisbrough Castle, de Warenne, Doncaster, Earls of Surrey, Edmund of Langley, Edward of Norwich, epworth, executions, Fotheringhay, Henry V, John of Gaunt, Lewes Priory, male primogeniture, Maud Clifford, Norman castles, Richard Duke of York, Richard Earl of Cambridge, Richard II, Royal deer forests, Sandal Castle, Sheffield, Southampton plot, YorkshireConisbrough Castle originates in the Norman period, but the existing structure is largely the work of the Warrenne family, with the keep, by far the most important of the surviving buildings, dating from the 12th Century. When the Warenne family died out in the 14th Century, their lands escheated to the crown and a large…
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