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Forgotten Stories: William and Barbara Jenison and their Extravagant Town House in Newcastle, 1587
When we imagine walking into the home of a sixteenth-century merchant, we probably imagine wooden or plastered walls, a cupboard or two, and maybe a…
 • Jo Romero
Mince pies, stollen and... a lamprey pie? The Christmas story of Mrs Darke, c1829.
It’s Christmas Eve, and today our ancestors would have been busy getting ready for a season of feasting, prayer and welcoming friends and loved ones.
 • Jo Romero
Forgotten Stories: The Tragic Story of Mary Adams, 1702
Mary Adams was the daughter of a shoemaker based in Reading, Berkshire in the south east of England.
 • Jo Romero
Forgotten Stories: Thomas Appletree, (Accidental) Would-Be Assassin of Tudor London
On the evening of 17 July 1579 Queen Elizabeth I was riding in her barge between Greenwich and Deptford.
 • Jo Romero
Forgotten Stories: Elizabeth Croft, the Haunting Voice from Inside a Wall, 1554
In March 1554 confused Londoners pressed their ears up against a stone wall in Aldersgate Street, an area to the east of the Tudor city.
 • Jo Romero
Big Bumper Halloween Special
Halloween is fast approaching and the shops are filled with rubber skeletons, face paint and pumpkin-shaped trick or treat tubs.
 • Jo Romero
Forgotten Stories: Robert Powel's Desperate Attempt to Climb the Social Ladder, 1772
Robert Powel was born in the mid-eighteenth century to a poor family in Merioneth in North Wales, near Cardigan Bay.
 • Jo Romero
Love British History
Love British History
Exploring both the royal and the forgotten stories and people of what is now Britain, especially the period 1100-1750. Articles, chats, recipes and new findings.
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