Mark Forrest

A fascinating, if rather grim, read! You just never know what you might find in the #archives.

#ExploreYourArchive

There's still time to book to join us on 15 May for @amalexathorn.bsky.social and what will be a fascinating insight into the ways history was researched and written by women in the early 20th century. 🗃️ #Skystorians

Thanks Alex. we are starting small, but hope to pick up some momentum!

While researching the manorial descent of West Dean and East Grimstead (Wilts) I came across John Evelyn, an MP who served in five parliaments 1629-1660 ...

The recording of this event is now available on the @ihr.bsky.social website here www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/pla...
This is a great watch for anyone interested in the possibilities of doing #place based #history research outside higher education institutions.

Dorsetshire Customs, & C. Dorsetshire Customs, & C. by William Barnes. Harvest Home, Hay making, Matrimonial Oracles, Midsummer Eve, Peace in 1814, Country Pairs, Perambulations

Dorset dialect poet William Barnes recalled: "The celebration of Peace, in August, 1814, took place when I was a boy ... the respectable inhabitants subscribed largely to treat the poor with a public dinner of beef and pudding, and strong beer."

williambarnessociety.org.uk/dorsetshire-...

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

You are very kind, but I am lucky to have such excellent contributors who make the editorial process light work

Unusual (self-taught or with very basic instruction?) hand. Notes attached to the head of an account roll, from Tarrant Gunville (Dorset), mid-14th century

Roman v. Cathar [Gnostic Debate] Formidable verbal jousting over the future of the Languedoc region in the south of France, circa 1200 AD, between actual historical figures Dominic Guzmán, the founder of the Dominican Order who becam...

Surprisingly, this was not the most inappropriate casting of Brian Blessed ... here he is as a Cathar parfait ...
salt.odysee.tv/@JeanMichel:...

Once again it's great to see the results of all your hard work @wiltshistory.bsky.social @historyrosalind.bsky.social @lrylandepton.bsky.social @markforrest.bsky.social

#history #research #archives

The IHR London Summer School 2025: Rebels The IHR London Summer School offers a unique opportunity to explore London’s historic places from our home at Senate House in the heart of Bloomsbury.

Want to learn more about London's history this summer?

Join us @ihrlibrary.bsky.social between 14 and 18 July for our fabulous Summer School featuring Jack Cade, Punk, the rebellious pasts of Bloomsbury and much, much, more. 🗃️

English Heritage plans up to 200 redundancies and winter closures of some sites Exclusive: At least 7% of workforce could be affected with curators targeted as part of charity’s restructuring

'Staff at English Heritage have been shocked to discover that the cash-strapped organisation is planning up to 200 redundancies and the winter closure of various...historic sites in its care.

At least 7% of the workforce could be affected, with curators being particularly targeted, it is believed.'

Call for papers which begins: "We are pleased to announce that the Work, Authenticity, and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain (c.1500-1750) Conference, funded and sponsored by the Warwick Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre and the AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership Midlands4Cities, will take place at the University of Warwick on 10-11 June 2025. Keynote addresses will be delivered by Professor Steve Hindle (Washington University in St Louis), Professor Jane Whittle (University of Exeter), and jointly by Dr Mark Hailwood (University of Bristol) & Dr Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck, University of London)." Further details via the link.

'Work, Authenticity and Social Identity in #EarlyModern Britain'

Submit an abstract by Feb 1st and come along to Warwick on June 10-11th.🗃️

Excited to be speaking alongside @markhailwood.bsky.social, @jwhittle.bsky.social and Steve Hindle!

Details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

Sparrowhawk in the garden #winterwatch

Pretty sure it was on the BBC, so yes, probably on iPlayer ...

In a recent documentary a French craftsman working on the restoration of Notre Dame explained that the roof timbers cut with an adze were stronger and more able to flex with the settling of the building than those cut with a saw

East Grimstead inclosure map, 1818, showing the course of the Salisbury/Southampton canal as "the old canal"

Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain - Nature An analysis of ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA shows evidence of matrilocal communities in Iron Age Britain.

This is the exciting paper drop. New aDNA science out of Dublin.

Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset.

Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is a great album, we had it on repeat when it came out

TRUE HAPPINESS IN MALMESBURY ROAD — Wiltshire Victoria County History Although I have driven along Malmesbury Road in Chippenham hundreds of times, it is only when you walk slowly around peering at buildings and looking for datestones and such like that you come across ...

In our latest blog, John Chandler with insights from local historians Lucy Whitfield and Chris Dallimore reflects on 'True Happiness' in Chippenham.
www.wiltshirehistory.org/news/true-ha...

To buy a copy of Wem - and to support the work of VCH in Shropshire - www.vchshropshire.org/Wem.html or pop over to our friends @uolpress.bsky.social.

Our next Local History How-To session is on 'Ownership and Government' on 13th Jan with @markforrest.bsky.social, Francis Boorman, John Chandler, and @lrylandepton.bsky.social. It will feature a fun reenactment of a manor court.
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Hackwood Park, south front

Hackwood Park: north front

Oving House: garden front

Brockenhurst Park: garden front

My first blog post of 2025 concerns the families of the super-rich newspaper tycoons, the Viscounts Camrose and Kemsley, and their many houses, only one of which remains in their possession today: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/01/594-...

Events - Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre What's on Events coming up: Alternate Mondays starting 7 October 2024 Location: Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre A series of ten "How to" workshops to be held in the Wiltshire & Swind...

Looking forward to talking about manors and manorial administration at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre next Monday with @lrylandepton.bsky.social @johnhchandler.bsky.social and Francis Boorman
wshc.org.uk/events/

Interesting. A house at Tollard Royal is known as King John's House
www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vo...
The castle and park at Mere were established a generation later. The earlier royal site at Gillingham is discussed in Hutchins and a couple of early volumes of the Proceedings of the DNHAS

This image shows historic ships on a body of water in a drawing; the title of the talk is overlaid in black writing

Tonight is the night! For this year's Dymond lecture, we're joined by Professors @Medievalmariner and John McAleer, who will discuss English merchant shipping and early modern maritime communities.

Find out more: ow.ly/j2Kb50SE3Pj

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

Looking forward to co-hosting the Working with Documents session tomorrow in the Local History Workshops series at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre with colleagues from @wiltshistory.bsky.social
wshc.org.uk/events/

Roof hares, Corfe Mullen, Dorset

I remember exploring Ankerwyke priory, just over the Thames from Runnymede, when I was an undergraduate and being surprised that it was in Lincoln diocese