Arthur Conan Doyle

Now here’s a centenary coincidence:

Jul 7, 2024

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In July 1924, S. Saxon Barton, the Liverpool gynaecologist, founded the Fellowship of the White Boar, now the Richard III Society, on 6th. Also that month, John Logie Baird had a slight accident whilst inventing television and was obliged to leave his lodgings in Hastings. Baird was part of the Caledonian tradition of scientific and…
The legend of Fowlescombe Manor….

Feb 28, 2020

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It is a fact that in this modern age most of us frown upon the ancient practice of hunting with hounds, whether on horseback or not, but in times gone by, such things were commonplace and accepted. I’m not here to promote a debate on the rights and wrongs of hunting, but to mention a…
The truth about Richard….

Mar 27, 2019

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Here is something to cheer. A little article, part of which deals with the truth about Richard III. And yes, Josephine Tey’s “Daughter of Time” gets a long mention too.
1484 – TITULUS REGIUS: FACT OR FICTION?

Jan 23, 2018

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Introduction ‘ ‘This is indeed a mystery’ I remarked.’ What do you think it means?’‘I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suite theories, instead of theories to suite facts.’ In Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story A Scandal…
Black Vaughan of Hergest Court in Herefordshire….

Jul 25, 2017

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Thomas Vaughan ap Rosser was born in 1400, and nicknamed ‘Black’ Vaughan because of his black hair; or perhaps because of his black nature. No one knows which. His main residence was Hergest Court, near Kington in Herefordshire, and his wife was Ellen Gethin of Llanbister, Radnorshire. She was, from all accounts, a formidable…

Arthur Conan Doyle

Now here’s a centenary coincidence:

The legend of Fowlescombe Manor….

The truth about Richard….

1484 – TITULUS REGIUS: FACT OR FICTION?

Black Vaughan of Hergest Court in Herefordshire….