A rather fun news story emerged over the weekend that a three million pound painting by the painter Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) was rediscovered in the storeroom of Swansea Museum (also see ...
William has been wondering about the origins of a pub name in Ullenhall.
Ben has fish and naming troubles. Please help solve them.
Dick would like to know what's in a name...?
As we have read, Fulke Greville’s murder was a particularly gruesome affair. So why did he do it? Well, most of the narrative focusses on Hawarde’s dissatisfaction with the terms ...
Association for retired former employees (and their partners) of the Willans Works in Rugby.
The Willans Works archives project at the Warwickshire County Record Office is coming to an end later this month, but work on the records of the engineering site at Rugby ...
The Willans Works exhibition is on until 22nd August at Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, celebrating Rugby’s rich engineering heritage by tracing the history of Willans and Robinson, the firm ...
The project to catalogue the records of the Rugby engineering firm Willans and Robinson has uncovered many topical references to the First World War.
Following the German invasion of Belgium on ...
Whilst I was going through one of the many drawers of fossils that Warwickshire Museum hold, I came across a specimen which was donated by a William Boon. I checked ...
I know very little about my grandfather, I know he was born in or around Knowle and I have his soldiers small book and some papers relating to service in the ...
William Clarke ran a bakery and confectioners , selling bread and cakes. One unusual customer of the bakery was an elephant owned by Daisy, Countess of Warwick. A receipt from ...
William Cookes (1788-1853) was a member of the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society. In 1844 he donated a collection of 40 slabs of various types of wood from Britain ...
Towering over scholarship on Warwickshire’s Past is the figure of William Dugdale, author of the Antiquities of Warwickshire. Born in 1605 in Shustoke, he lived at Blyth Hall in the ...
William Floyd of Berkswell was a whitster whose job it was to bleach wool or cloth. Early in November 1795 he took out a patent for his invention of a ...
After World War One William returned to his career as Headmaster of Southam School. In March 1919 he was involved in setting up The Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Airmen’s Association at ...
William Henry Grassam was a headteacher in Warwickshire schools, including Southam and Bedworth, between 1915 and 1955. He was also an active member of the community. He married A.M. Hammond ...
