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A few months ago I was given a copy of a pamphlet entitled The Warning Voice, consisting of verses composed in the second half of the 19th century by ...
(Continued from part one)
The disagreement between Rhoades and Moultrie came out of the blue on Christmas morning 1872 when the rector wrote a peremptory note to his curate:
Dear Rhoades, I ...
John Moultrie is probably Rugby’s most gifted and prolific 19th century poet, though now rarely read and to most not even a vaguely remembered name. He was an upholder of ...
Mary Anne Evans1 was born on the 22nd November 1819 at South Farm on the Arbury estate, on the outskirts of Nuneaton, Warwickshire, the third of five children of parents ...
Rupert Brooke’s father William was a teacher at Rugby School who ran his home, 5 Hillmorton Road, as a boarding house for boys from the school. This is where Rupert ...
I was interested in finding the identity of the people mentioned in the poem “The Warning Voice” by James Brown (1817-1886), about sudden deaths in Warton in 1875-76, a copy ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of America’s most celebrated writers, especially famed for The Scarlet Letter of 1850. He stayed in Leamington three times, including Lansdowne Circus in 1857. On his ...
This Valentine’s note, written some time in the early 1800s and treasured in the Warwickshire County Record Office collection, is visually stunning: its papercut artwork is beautiful and delicate. Unfortunately the poetry is ...
It can be very difficult to find black voices from Warwickshire in our archives. We have found that many of our historical records relating to black people come from the ...