# forgotten stories (blogs) — RSS Amplifier

Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover forgotten stories.

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## [Forgotten Stories: Thomas Baltzar, Charles II's Violinist](https://joromero.substack.com/p/forgotten-stories-thomas-baltzar)

_2026-08-02 · Jo Romero · Love British History_

In around 1630 a boy, Thomas, was born in Lübeck in Germany.

## [Forgotten Stories: Desiderata de Toryntone and the Stolen Silver, London 1337](https://joromero.substack.com/p/forgotten-stories-desiderata-de-toryntone)

_2026-06-29 · Jo Romero · Love British History_

Fleet Street, London.

## [Forgotten Stories: Dodgy Physician and Surgeon Valentine Rasworme, London, 1574.](https://joromero.substack.com/p/forgotten-stories-dodgy-physician)

_2026-05-18 · Jo Romero · Love British History_

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](https://joromero.substack.com/p/forgotten-stories-james-dalgliesh)

_2026-04-26 · Jo Romero · Love British History_

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](https://joromero.substack.com/p/jack-sheppard-crime-celebrity-of)

_2026-03-25 · Jo Romero · Love British History_

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](https://joromero.substack.com/p/james-morphie-edinburgh-tailor-of)

_2026-02-16 · Jo Romero · Love British History_

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](https://joromero.substack.com/p/forgotten-stories-william-and-barbara)

_2026-01-28 · Jo Romero · Love British History_

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.](https://joromero.substack.com/p/mince-pies-stollen-and-a-lamprey)

_2025-12-24 · Jo Romero · Love British History_

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](https://joromero.substack.com/p/forgotten-stories-the-tragic-story)

_2025-11-29 · Jo Romero · Love British History_

Mary Adams was the daughter of a shoemaker based in Reading, Berkshire in the south east of England.

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## [Forgotten Stories: Thomas Appletree, (Accidental) Would-Be Assassin of Tudor London](https://joromero.substack.com/p/forgotten-stories-thomas-appletree)

_2025-11-13 · Jo Romero · Love British History_

On the evening of 17 July 1579 Queen Elizabeth I was riding in her barge between Greenwich and Deptford.