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Copyhold Tenure what does it mean?
If you were a Serf, you had no rights of appeal to a court outside that of your Manor, where your elied upon the biased and often harsh law of your particular lord, who might only be goverened by local custom. Copyhold tenure lifted you out of such servitude and established increased legal rights which were only abolished in 1926. Whilst the Land Registry was established in 1862, it did not record all transactions, find out how you can explore copyholders relevant to you and your history project for connections and insights that date back well before the 1837 BMD Registers…
Read MoreJohn Speed Genealogy and King James Bible
John Speed mapmaker was also an historian who wrote a postdeluvian genealogy to be inserted in the King James Bible
Read MoreKing Offa 757 – 796
The life of King Offa is riddled with surprises. Just who was this man who became the first acknowledged overlord of all the Kingdoms of England, who built great structures across the landscape and yet whose intellect took him to the courts of Charlemagne?
Read MoreTennis, the Sport of Clergy, Kings and Commoners
The origins of tennis go back a thousand years, a sport loved by the nobility of France and England was also enjoyed by the common man.
Read MoreIona heart of Celtic Christianity
Iona the centre of the development of Celtic Christianity the base with Lindisfarne from which Pagan Northumbria is converted, possible place of creation of the masterpiece and artefact of illuminated manuscript the Book of Kells leaving an enduring imprint on our history…
Read MoreShakespeares Quartos Digitised with full text search
Shakespeares Quartos in high resolution with searchable online text, precious artefacts at your fingertips so that you can virtually touch these priceless resources and harness them in your own historical research…a beacon of light in the field of digital history and humanities…led by the Bodleian Library quite inspiring
Read MoreEdward VI and Vagrancy Act 1547 Poor Laws
The Vagrancy Act 1547 was an uncaring response to a complicated social and economic situation after the death of King Henry VIII. The poor were penalized for a series of poor decisions by the Privy Council.
Read MoreWestminster Hall 1097
Westminster Hall, Westminster London, the oldest building in Parliament with the most stunning hammerbeam roof
Read MoreRiver Thames and Waterloo Bridge
Waterloo Bridge described as one of the noblest crossings of the River Thames, designed by John Rennie
Read MorePunishment of Vagabonds and Beggars 1536 Henry VIII
1536 Anne Boelyn executed. Dissolution of the Monasteries commences following Henry VIII’s declaration of Supremacy over the Church… Doesn’t bode well for the poor and idle if that is how you treat the people you love…Trace what happens next in the plight of the poor and the evolution of the wlefare state. It all goes back a lot further than you might think….
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