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flickeringlamps.com
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| | | | | A few weeks ago, I was spending the weekend with old friends in Sheffield, and on the Saturday afternoon we drove out to Southwell, a pretty little town in Nottinghamshire. I wasn't sure what to expect - my friend had sold Southwell to me as a beautiful and interesting historic town, but I had no... | |
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margaret21.com
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| | | | | Here is a tale of a murder. A murder which led to the building of a very fine church not many miles from here. In 1870, Frederick Vyner, son of the Marquess of Ripon and Lady Mary Vyner, travelled to Greece with a small band of English and Italian friends and servants. They were set... | |
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lancashirepast.com
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| | | | | Theoval shapedgraveyard of St Helens is akey indicator that a very early 'Dark Ages' Saxonchurch stood onceinthis place.The name 'Churchtown' wasat one time calledKirkland, with 'kirk' being the Viking word for a church. The earliest parts of the present building are the pillars of the north aisle which date from 1180 when the Normanchurch was... | |
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thefreelancehistorywriter.com
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| | | Photo copyright of the The Freelance History Writer It's always an interesting exercise as an historian to contemplate the "what ifs" of history. Edward VI of England is just one of those cases. Would he have been the epitome of a Protestant humanist, ruling with a velvet touch? Or would he have become a tyrant... | ||
