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Just me - obsessed with history βοΈ books π myths & legends... Saving foxes from the gentry...
Question for anyone with past connections to St Winefrides Convent, #Shrewsbury:
When did the school year begin, 1970 era - Easter or September?
I was told Easter as it was a Catholic private school, but school fee receipts I have found begin for the September term.
π· 1970, summer uniform.
The epitaph of Naseby is usually overlooked by most commentaries: The Farndon Massacre should not be forgotten, and surely there should be a memorial in the likely location? #Naseby #EnglishCivilWar #Warsof3Kingdoms #BritishCivilWars www.keepyourpowderdry.co.uk/2024/05/the-...
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The Daughter & Myself decided a SERIOUS book safari was required!
So was a shopping trolley π
Mine & hers...
More BCW Project news! The Regimental Wiki is mostly back online (still sorting a few formatting issues). Link from front page needs amending (a job for another day).
In the meantime you can find it at wiki.BCW-project.org.uk
#Warsof3Kingdoms #BritishCivilWars #EnglishCivilWar
Who Filled An Armyβs Ranks? βοΈ
Armies of the English Civil Wars were made up of a range of experience and ages. While young apprentices flocked to join Parliamentβs cause at the outbreak of the wars, soldiers that had fought overseas in the Thirty Years War were also sought after.
π·: Wendy Williams
It's back!
bcw-project.org.uk
At the moment the Project part of the site is back up and running, a few bits have been turned off for now (you can't donate to the running of the site, or contact us yet). The Wiki might take a bit longer I'm afraid.
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π Weβre delighted to unveil the speakers for the inaugural Stuart History Festival.
Itβs going to be a celebration of (what we believe is) the most dramatic, dazzling, and divisive period in British history!
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5-6 July, The Old Palace, Worcester ....
My book with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social is now on their website and is available to pre-order! So excited to see this π
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/voices-...
#earlymodern #earlymodernwomen
Those churches built on hollow hills, built next to old paths, cannot help but exude a sense of the pagan. They sit uneasily in the land, become ghost generators, sanctuaries for strange stories. They try to present themselves as nexus of community life, but death is in their stones. β #DAKilroy
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Catalogue/Guide Book to the Cromwell Museum, June 1963.
Here's an unusual new acquisition, as it's a bit of our own history. A copy of our earliest guidebook, produced a few months after we first opened in October 1962. It's fascinating to see how our collection has developed, expanded and improved since then! #ObjectOfTheWeek
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πNEW EPISODE π
The latest episode of The Shropshire Witches Podcast discusses the fascinating world of pirates! From medieval sea thieves to men like blackbeard. Sail away with us as we explore pirate fact and pirate fiction β οΈ
media.rss.com/the-shropshi...
#Pirates #History #Folklore #Pirate
A newspaper report detailing Emma's story
β¨οΈNEW POSTβ¨οΈ
My latest blog post discusses the complex story of Emma Davies, who was at the centre of 'The Shropshire Hoax' in 1883. Though not a traditional ghost story, I believe her story is important.
nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
#Shropshire #History #Folklore #ghosts
βοΈ#OTD 1643, Battle of Stratton.
Despite being outnumbered 2 to 1, Ralph Hopton's royalists battle up a steep hill for hours & rout the Earl of Stamford's 6000 parliamentarians.
Hopton captures 1700 prisoners, 13 artillery pieces & secures #Cornwall.
The top of the reading heap has taken an interesting detour...
24.04.2025 11:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#EarlyModern #17thC
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Poster for the spring 2025 Cromwell Museum Lecture series - see link for more details and full listing
Tickets are on sale now for our spring online lecture series, starting in May. Four top historians over successive weeks on aspects of the 1600s, this time covering subjects from radical republicans, religious groups and the outbreak of the civil war... www.cromwellmuseum.org/events/cromw...
15.04.2025 07:52 β π 8 π 6 π¬ 0 π 2"Goats..." could be "goeth a thall" (goes a little)
06.04.2025 23:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Apparently this is on YouTube in all its 1974 finery. It was my favourite programme at the time.
Off to relive memories go I! This inspired me to spend 6 months dressed as the Kaiser.
(No cosplay this time round though, the Kaiser & I had a bit of a falling out over a few matters π§)
More because I boobed with my choice of cover pic.
Thinking of starting a Free the Kitty campaign πΌ
I'm still in the naughty book π
06.04.2025 19:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
"Reverend Mother, I have sinned."
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Engraving of John Lilburne holding a book at the bar fro his trial, with his freedom medal engraved above.
#OnThisDay 2 April 1649 a petition signed by 80,000 people (a huge number for the time), calling for the release of the Leveller John Lilburne and his associates accused of treason, was presented to the Council of State. #17thCentury #OTD #Levellers
02.04.2025 08:15 β π 9 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0
First port of call will HAVE to be the (extremely royalist) 17thC with its usurpation π, & in "present time" George IV was the reigning monarch...
01.04.2025 18:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Crispy book time!!!
A History of Shropshire, 1825, with a whole history of its own to delve into by the looks of it.
With MANY thanks to the Raven Bookshop - to be found on FB & Instagram, & the Market Hall Shrewsbury if you wish to pay a visit in person.
#Shrewsbury #ShrewsburyBookshops
An image of a tinted engraving of Warwick Castle, with these words around it: THE BRITISH CIVIL WARS 1638-1651 THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN CAUSES CONFLICTS CONSEQUENCES People, events and ideas of the British Civil Wars explored and explained by leading historians New podcast How the Greville family made Warwick Castle a Parliamentary stronghold
During the civil wars, Lord & Lady Brooke made Warwick Castle a stronghold for Parliament and withstood a Royalist siege. The new TWTUD explores the lives of the men & women revealed in the household accounts of Lord & Lady Brooke between 1640 and 1649 www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/podcast/a-fa...
28.03.2025 10:09 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0The M54 reached as far as Telford & then became the old A5.
It was also the world's bumpiest road (again the opinion of a small child).
Who needed an amusement park ride when you could just drive along the Wellington Bypass.
It was promptly rebuilt & became far less exciting.
I grew up hearing about the ghost railways of old Shropshire... (the interpretation of a small child whose mother travelled to school on the Severn Valley π)
Disused tracks & ruined bridges from the railway's demise in 1963. It was already under threat of closure.
We got the M54 in exchange...
Yes I have thoughts @muinchille.bsky.social, which I can express here as I am πon X.
What is described is PART of a bigger system which included other social reforms & opportunity for emigration, so if used in its entirety would possibly be detrimental to Ireland at the time.
