(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 ...
In 1506, William Cope sold the manor of Wormleighton to his wife’s cousin, John Spencer of Snitterfield beginning a long association between the Spencer family and Wormleighton.
John Spencer built a manor ...
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,” ...
In recent decades, the focus of archivists and conservators has moved beyond the text alone and we have begun to realise the importance and historical value of the book as ...
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, ...