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Beautiful Collyweston….
architecture, Battle of Hastings, Ben Robinson, Cambridgeshire, Castle Acre, Clovelly, Cluniac Priories, Collyweston, cotton mills, Country Life, Cromfield, de Warenne, Derby, Devon, Dorset, fishing, Gainsthorpe, grubenhaus, Henry VII, industry, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lavenham, limestone, Lincolnshire, Milton Abbas, Norfolk, North Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Robin Hood’s Bay, Suffolk, Sutton-in-the-Isle, villages, West Stow, woolThe ten best villages in England are listed here and Collyweston in Northamptonshire makes the grade. I can only say that it does so entirely on its own merit and in spite of having once been the lair of Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII.
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This enthralling BBC Four documentary describes the story of the artwork that is actually a seventy metre embroidery on a woollen surface. It was mostly filmed at the Bayeux Museum, where the artwork is displayed in temperature and humidity controlled conditions. The presenters pointed out that the “Tapestry”, obviously dedicated to Odo Bishop of Bayeux,…
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St Andrew’s Church, Wingfield and the Tombs of the de la Poles
“Lambert Simnel”, Azincourt, Basilica of San Pietro in Ciel d’ Oro, Carthusian Monastery, Charles Alfred Stothard, churches, de la Pole family, Dukes of Suffolk, Earls of Suffolk, Edmund Earl of Suffolk, Elizabeth of Suffolk, funeral effigy, Harfleur, Hicks, John Duke of Suffolk, John Earl of Lincoln, Katherine Stafford, Kingston-upon-Hull, Lord Richard de la Pole, Merciless Parliament, Michael de la Pole, Paris, Pavia, Richard II, Sir john Wingfield, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, Sir William de la Pole, St. Andrew’s Wingfield, Stoke Field, woolReblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com St Andrew’s Church, Wingfield, Suffolk. Mausoleum of the de la Poles. You know when the great Sir Nikolaus Pevsner was ‘impressed’ with a church then it must indeed be rather special (1). And St Andrew’s with its soaring clerestories, nave roof with arched braces resting on figures of winged…
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Well, I associate Edward I with many things, but not children’s nursery rhymes. I can imagine him being used to frighten them witless, but not to sing and chant with humour. Anyway, according to this site two of our oldest rhymes are due to old Longshanks. I find it hard to believe the Dr…
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In 2014, a broken Victorian corkscrew made from pieces of old London Bridge was bought for £40,000 at an auction in Essex, over 100 times its asking price. See this article/, from which the following is taken:- “The corkscrew, the components of which are thought to be up to 800 years old, was bought by…
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A pastoral tale
bacon, climate, Dominic Sandbrook, East Anglia, Edward I, Florence, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Orwell, Hanseatic League, Italy, Jerusalem, Lavenham, Mediaeval Warm Period, Medici, music, Peter and the Wolf, Peter Corbet, Prokofiev, sheep, Shropshire, T.S. Eliot, timber-framed houses, William Blake, wolves, wool, WoolsackThis article investigates why, as the Mediaeval Warm Period drew to a close, Britain (and particularly England) developed differently to many nations of Southern Europe. Sandbrook mentions two major cultural factors: the tradition of salting bacon because ham could not be dry-cured and the evolution of the wool trade through the systematic elimination of the…
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