In using documents to research landscape history and ecology, there are two related golden rules to observe:
In any conflict of evidence between what the landscape itself has to say and ...
The Berkswell ‘Cello is labelled and dated by the maker: John Barrett at the Harp and Crown in
Pickadilly, London 1720.†The ‘cello is listed in the Berkswell Church Warden accounts in ...
In the 17th Century the Puritans swept away flowery instruments like organs. This was ‘enforced’ by the Long Parliament in an act of 16441 called ‘Further Ordinance for the demolition of ...
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 ...