The Dugdale Society launched its latest publication on Monday: The Newburgh Earldom of Warwick and its charters: 1088 – 1253, edited by David Crouch with an introduction and appendix by ...
Constructed 1280-1330 with later additions
Until 50 or 60 years ago, Warwick was home to one of the best preserved English medieval wooden instruments surviving in modern times. The ‘Warwick Gittern’, whose main ...
Guy of Warwick is one of those figures, like Robin Hood and King Arthur, whose existence is more legend than history. His story has been told and re-told over the ...
(continued from the Master Bakers of Coventry)
The ‘property’ of the Bakers’ Company was handed over to the Corporation of Coventry by Mr Thomas Windridge, c.1908.
It consists of:
Three books of minutes ...
On browsing through the minutes of the Coventry & District Master Bakers Association, which are kept in the City Archives, I found many interesting items relating to the bakery trade ...
The Siege of Kenilworth was part of the second Barons` War and lasted from June to December 1266. The 750th anniversary will be celebrated in Kenilworth in September 2016.
Historical background
In ...
The Manor of Hunningham has a history going back a thousand years. This characteristic makes it of great historical and scientific interest in the context of studies on the history ...
Brinklow Castle is a motte and bailey castle dating from Norman times, although Chatwin suggests that the Normans could have used a mound already in situ.
Situated on the Fosse Way, ...