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Forgotten Stories: Dodgy Physician and Surgeon Valentine Rasworme, London, 1574.
Medicine was a difficult job in the medieval and Tudor periods, and many patients took their lives into their hands by agreeing to receive treatment by…
 • Jo Romero
Forgotten Stories: James Dalgliesh and the Edinburgh Plague of 1568
As the warm summer breezes of August shifted to the cool haziness of early September 1568, a man staggered to his bed feeling unwell.
 • Jo Romero
Jack Sheppard, Crime Celebrity of Early Georgian London, 1702-1724
In 1702 a baby boy was born in Spitalfields in London, an area known for its terraced houses and known for the local weaving and silk working trades.
 • Jo Romero
James Morphie, Edinburgh Tailor of 1647
I was looking through some old archaeological journals and found an article of 1848 reporting on the discovery of a seventeenth century letter at…
 • Jo Romero
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
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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