People are broadly aware of the historic criminalisation of male homosexual activity – cases of certain famous individuals like Oscar Wilde and Alan Turing spring to mind. Until the Sexual ...
In the first part of this article I discussed the history of the Prince of Wales theatre, Nuneaton, from its opening night to its demolition. Now we shall have a ...
It has been a very theatre-friendly year, what with the 400 year anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, and having discovered this treasure at the Warwickshire County Record Office I thought it would be ...
Method
Though it felt a bit odd, I followed the recipe to the letter and added the water (cold), margarine and sugar and heated it over a low heat. This was ...
This is the second in the series of the Heritage Cooking Challenge and this month it is fudge!
Weights and measures
The recipe for chocolate fruit fudge in the Hemming Family of Henley in ...
Walls surrounded the medieval city of Coventry with 12 gateways and 32 towers made from handsome local red sandstone.
The city walls slighted
Just before the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642, Charles ...
Esther (‘Hester’) Jackson Jones was born in Grendon. She was baptised in Grendon on 14th April 1816. Only the mother is identified in the baptismal register.
Hester married Joseph Dester of Bramcote in ...
Soon after I had started writing up the story of Ann Tennant, I received a telephone call from a freelance newspaper reporter who had been commissioned to write a series ...
(continued from part one)
The trial of James Hayward for the murder of Ann Tennant was held three months after the inquest, at Warwick Crown Court on Tuesday 14th and Wednesday ...
On Christmas Eve 1998, I took delivery of a large brown envelope postmarked Southport. Inside was a copy of the death certificate of my great-great grandmother Ann Tennant. I knew ...
This 1820s Albion Printing Press was lent by a local printer to St. Mary’s Church in Warwick as part of an exhibition to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death ...
I was sad to see this former pub on the corner of Newbold Road and Essex Street has been sold and is being redeveloped. It opened in 1897 and belonged ...
