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As a writer of historical novels (I’ve produced a lot!) it is always of immense interest to know exactly what a certain place might have looked like in the time my novel is set. Having written many that were set in Regency Bath, I would have been very thankful indeed to find this site. Alas, my…
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I have just learned of another site that allows one to see a local area in maps past and present. Interesting, and worth bookmarking. Only West of England at the moment, as far as I can see. Let’s hope the rest of the country is eventually given the same coverage. The illustration shows the part of Gloucester…
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So where exactly is “Orwell”?
Christopher Jones, Christopher Newport, Edmund Earl of Kent, Emma Lady Hamilton, Essex, Felixstowe, Harwich, Harwich Society, Horatio Nelson, Ipswich, Isabella de Valois, Jamestown, John Cromwell, Kathryn Warner, landing, maps, Orwell, pubs, River Orwell, River Stour, Roger Mortimer, Samuel Pepys, Shotley Peninsula, Suffolk, Three CupsHarwich Town station is the end of the line, a twenty-five minute ride from Manningtree and the north-eastern extremity of Essex. As you cross the main road from the station car park, turning left takes you past a series of old buildings with Harwich Society plaques amid a modern setting. Some of these commemorate people such…
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How often do we Google for old town maps, only to find they’re so low in pixels that actually making out details is impossible? Well, while searching for such a map of Coventry, I have found an excellent site that gives a zoomable version of Speed‘s map of 1610. It goes in so close that…
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To mark the 1900th anniversary of Hadrian’s accession, here is a map of Britain’s Roman Roads. Thanks to www.VisitateLindumColoniam.com – and here is our mediaeval map of London.
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Miles Metcalf, or how the city of York defied Henry VII…
Archbishop of York, Bosworth, Coventry, Earl of Northumberland, Edward IV, Exeter, Francis Bacon, Guy Fairfax, Henry VII, John Vavasour, maps, Miles Metcalf, Norwich, Richard Green, Richard III, riots, Sir Thomas Metcalfe, Stoke Field, Tewkesbury, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Middleton, York, York civic recordsIn a book called The Fifteenth Century – 3: Authority and Subversion, edited by Linda Clark, there is an interesting essay by James Lee entitled Urban Recorders and the Crown in Late Medieval England. I have taken from the article to illustrate the situation of the city of York with regard to the vital position…
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I have just come across the article below which lists some of the old and ancient names of different areas of London. They don’t all reference the era we are most interested in, but the explanations are still of interest. Click on link to see whole aticle. Mapped: London’s Lost Neighbourhoods
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This illustration is from a report about the Westminster World Heritage Site that dates from 2007. It contains some interesting information and rather good illustrations, especially of what the site looked like in late-Medieval times. Worth dipping into. The view above is how it is believed the abbey and palace looked circa 1532, or thereabouts,…
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