Forgotten Stories: Thomas Baltzar, Charles II's Violinist
In around 1630 a boy, Thomas, was born in Lübeck in Germany.
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Forgotten Stories: Desiderata de Toryntone and the Stolen Silver, London 1337
Fleet Street, London.
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 qualified physicians.
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.
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.
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 Cortachy Castle in Angus, Scotland.
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 tapestry hanging on the wall for warmth.
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.
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.
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.