Elizabeth Jane Woodhouse Lewis (1813–1874) was born in Ludlow and spent much of her life at Yatton Court, Aymestrey. She seems to have been a remarkably independent spirit, who defied her father by marrying geologist and antiquarian, Revd Thomas Taylor Lewis. She was...
NORTH HEREFORDSHIRE
The Tichborne family
This talk will tell the history of one of the oldest English families, the Tichbornes of Hampshire, who have lived at Tichborne near Winchester since before the Norman Conquest and still live there now. Their story includes a twelfth century curse that came true in...
Ocean Liners
A nostalgic return to the days when passenger ships looked like ships and passengers had cabins not staterooms. An age when ships engaged on long distance voyages and not seven night cruises. The Advent of jet travel in the late 1950s changed everything and shipping...
Herefordshire Hillforts
The literature on the Iron Age in Britain is replete with descriptions of the form and the excavation of hilltop or hillslope enclosures commonly known as ‘hillforts.’ Areas in - or close to - the upland areas of Britain sometimes have particularly dense distributions...
The Peasants’ Revolt
In the summer of 1381, the first well documented popular rising in England shook the political foundations of a nation. A teenage king sought to deal with a populace pushed beyond what they could tolerate. What sparked the Peasants’ Revolt? Why is the name it has been...
Landscape, Architecture and Memory – The Drawings of Elizabeth Lewis
Elizabeth Jane Woodhouse Lewis (1813–1874) was born in Ludlow and spent much of her life at Yatton Court, Aymestrey. She seems to have been a remarkably independent spirit, who defied her father by marrying geologist and antiquarian, Revd Thomas Taylor Lewis. She was...
The Tichborne family
This talk will tell the history of one of the oldest English families, the Tichbornes of Hampshire, who have lived at Tichborne near Winchester since before the Norman Conquest and still live there now. Their story includes a twelfth century curse that came true in...
Ocean Liners
A nostalgic return to the days when passenger ships looked like ships and passengers had cabins not staterooms. An age when ships engaged on long distance voyages and not seven night cruises. The Advent of jet travel in the late 1950s changed everything and shipping...
Herefordshire Hillforts
The literature on the Iron Age in Britain is replete with descriptions of the form and the excavation of hilltop or hillslope enclosures commonly known as ‘hillforts.’ Areas in - or close to - the upland areas of Britain sometimes have particularly dense distributions...
The Peasants’ Revolt
In the summer of 1381, the first well documented popular rising in England shook the political foundations of a nation. A teenage king sought to deal with a populace pushed beyond what they could tolerate. What sparked the Peasants’ Revolt? Why is the name it has been...