Baddesley Clinton is a moated manor house in the care of the National Trust with a fascinating history. On a recent visit I was entertained by musicians in Tudor costume ...
Look at some of the houses in West Street, and the brick frontages hint at the type of properties to be found elsewhere in Warwick after the Great Fire. Further ...
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Ordinatum est per xii jur’ predictos quod nulli decetero de villata de Atherston’ ludunt ad lusum vocat’ la Teneys sub pena de xld. tociens quociens quod luder’ videntur –
Ordered by ...
Warwickshire Museum recently acquired this small but stunning object, which was found near Middleton in North Warwickshire by a metal detectorist. It has been dated to the 15th century and ...
(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 ...
I recently visited the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Astley during the heritage open days (I also visited Astley Castle next door, but there are several posts on ...
The name comes from archery: a butt is either the target itself or a mound of earth behind it to safely absorb badly-aimed arrows. Archery was an important part of ...
I wonder how many people who cross The Solent to holiday on the Isle of Wight, or for that matter how many residents of the Garden Isle, know that the ...
The Hundred Years War is a term applied to the intermittent hostilities between England and France during the 14th and 15th centuries. One such phase featured Joan of Arc and ...
The Falconer’s Quest is the latest attraction at Warwick Castle. The tagline, “join Warwick’s Falconer on an epic quest of discovery to find the finest Birds in all the land,” ...
This famous Hospital was founded by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth the First (who gave him Kenilworth Castle). The magnificent buildings were in fact not ...
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 ...
Featuring extracts from the 1431 Household Account Book of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, Archivist Amanda Williams explains how these extracts shed light on Richard’s famous prisoner, Joan of Arc, ...
Think of King Arthur and certain images come to mind; jousting, the Lady of the Lake, the Launcelot, Guinevere, Arthur love triangle to name but three,. Think of places, and ...
