Lichfield

‘I saw something shining…’ Metal Detecting Finds..

Apr 16, 2020

archaeology, Science

Alfred the Great, Anglo-Saxons, Bedale Hoard, Cheshire, coins, crime, helmets, House of Wessex, jewellery, Lichfield, Lincolnshire, metal detecting, Middleham Jewel, Norfolk, Staffordshire Hoard, Vikings, Wales, York Museum, Yorkshire Museum

The Staffordshire Hoard. One of the biggest hoard of Anglo Saxon artefacts every discovered. See more of this hoard below.. A story has broken of four ‘metal detectorists’ who have been convicted of stealing a hoard of Anglo-Saxon coins and jewellery worth 3 million pounds, most of which is, tragically, still missing. You can tell from the pictures of…
Monologue on Richard III at Lichfield Cathedral

Sep 14, 2018

buildings, Events, religion

English Civil War, George Duke of Clarence, Lichfield, Lichfield Cathedral, Richard III, spires

On Richard III’s birthday (October 2), Dr Gareth Williams, curator of the British Museum, is going to deliver a monologue on Richard at Lichfield Cathedral. Dr Williams also is a director of research at Tutbury Castle, which has connections to both George of Clarence and Richard. Obviously I don’t know what kind of Richard will…
Another famous Shakespearean Richard from the past….

Feb 11, 2016

The play’s the thing

art, David Garrick, Hogarth, Lichfield, Richard III, Shakespeare

David Garrick was an 18th century actor whose name is still synonymous with the Shakespearean roles he performed. Raised in Lichfield, he had intended to be a lawyer but was instead drawn into the theatre AT THE age of 24, David Garrick made his stage debut in Ipswich and only a few months later took…

Lichfield

‘I saw something shining…’ Metal Detecting Finds..

Monologue on Richard III at Lichfield Cathedral

Another famous Shakespearean Richard from the past….