Scotland
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Today is St Andrew’s Day, 30th November. St Andrew was one of Jesus’ apostles. and is also the patron saint of Scotland and other countries like Romania and Greece. His feast day celebrates him as one of Jesus’s first disciples and is marked by cultural celebrations in Scotland, whose national flag is the saltire, a…
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St Ninian was ‘a most holy man’ according to the Venerable Bede. He was born around 360AD, near Hadrian’s Wall. He is first heard of in the 8th century as being an early missionary among the Pictish peoples of what is now Scotland from his monastery in Whithorn, Galloway. For this reason he is known…
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By Super Blue Channel Four’s occasional series about the lives of the Royal Family is back and this time it is focused upon Scotland. Dumfries House in Ayrshire is mentioned as is Glamis Castle, the home of their Bowes-Lyon ancestors, arguing that Scotland is where they feel most at home. Most of the hour was…
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I am sure you have all seen the famous triptych of Charles I – one front view and two profiles – and felt that he could have benefitted from two extra heads in real life, or admired the Wilton Diptych of Richard II and significant religious figures. Now there is another triptych on the scene,…
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Poetry, architecture and journalism in their souls
“Tudor” rebellions, Annette Carson, architects, bob wyatt, bodyline, cricket, false allegations, Henry Grey Duke of Suffolk, Jane, Lord Guildford Dudley, MPs, peers, petronella wyatt, poets, Scotland, Sir Henry Wyatt, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Wyatt the Younger, Wallis Simpson, Woodrow Wyatt, Wyatt familyAt the moment, it looks as though there may be two separate Wyatt families. The first would start with Sir Henry, who the anti-historians claim to have been tortured on the orders of Richard III … except that we know, thanks to Carson et al, that it happened in Scotland. Sir Thomas the poet (left)…
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As I’ve probably mentioned before, I enjoy watching the TV series Antiques Road Trip, and far from spending my evenings in riotous living, I like to watch a couple of episodes (of which there are a huge number!) The object of the programme is for two contestants (experts on antiques) to visit a number of…
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Sanda Island is in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, off the southern tip of the Kintyre peninsula, and it came to my attention when I read this article A Scottish island for sale with seals, seven houses, a lighthouse and its own pub – Country Life in Country Life. The article is beautifully illustrated, with an aerial video that sings…
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Today we all worry about global catastrophe, with terrible weather phenomena and all manner of fearful occurrences. Well, we understand more now, but what if we’d lived in medieval England? Back then everyone believed quite genuinely and fearfully in the supernatural, magic, Otherworldly beings, the wrath of God and the evil of the Devil. It…
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The de Courcy Matter, Part II: The French side of the story….
Azincourt, Castile, Charles VI, Chronique de la traison et mort de Richard Deux Roy Dengleterre, deanery of st george, Edward III, Enguerrand VII de Coucy, Flanders, France, governesses, Henry IV, Ireland, Isabeau of Bavaria, Isabelle de Valois, jewel theft, Kathryn Warner, Lancastrian propaganda, Lancastrians, marguerite lady de coucy, master pol, Milford Haven, Order of the Garter, pensions, Richard II, Scotland, sir philip de la vache, The Chronicle of Jean Creton, usurpers, Wallingford, William Scrope, Windsor CastleI hope that by the time you read this article you will already have visited yesterday’s Part I, which relates the English version of Marguerite de Courcy’s return to France. She left England under the cloud of having lived far too high a life for a governess and of stealing some English royal jewels. These…
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