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Mrs Dorothy Stanley, Art and Africa
What is the connection between London ragamuffin children and Dr Livingstone in Africa? A very talented Victorian neoclassical artist Dorothy Tennant.
Read MoreMapping the London Blitz
Will the TNA JISC funded Mapping the Blitz Project help those of us that funded it with our hard earn’t tax payers money we do hope so….
Read MoreKnights Templar at Fordingbridge
Evidence of the Order of the Knights Templar, can be found in the church of St Mary the Virgin Fordingbridge.
Read MoreKing Richard III of England Found Facts and Fiction
Richard III found in a Car Park with an Arrow in His back, can this be him, who was he and how can we distinguish him fact from fiction and the character assasination given him by William Shakespeare?
(This post will be updated, original posted in 2012.
Hampshire ‘Feet of Fines’
‘Feet of Fines’ documents for Hampshire date back to 1199 and give surnames and placenames of people living in Hampshire in the Medieval period. These are important resources for Hampshire History and help to build a picture of community and settlement…
Read MoreEdbald King of Kent circa 616-640
Eadbald, son of Aethelbert King of Kent who married his step-mother fails to expand the kingdom but manages to hang on to Kent.
Read MoreDumnonia and Dumnonii the Kingdom and People
The Dumnonii were they a group of celtic tribes, already established when the Romans invaded, and only subjugated finally by Egbert of Wessex in 838…along the path to the unification of England and subsequently Britain…
Read MoreHarthacnut King of the Danes and the English
Harthacnut son of Emma and Cnut, short lived Kingship a stepping stone to Edward the Confessor…
Read MoreThe Tower of London.
The Tower of London still stands as a symbol for the strength and greatness of the city of London, occupying a position as afortress for nearly two thousand years.
Read MoreEthelbert Anglo Saxon King of Kent 552-616
The King that welcomed Augustine and helped sowed the seed of Christianity as the monarchs Religion, encouraging his subjects to conversion, and the reason for the centre of the Church of England being in Cantebury.
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