November 2017

This following the blog of 30th October. The first surviving written record of Burton Constable Hall dates from 1560 when it was already described as an ‘ancient building’. There is evidence in the immediate grounds of ‘ridge and furrow’ which may be related to the fact that nearby is a deserted village site, this and […]

Apologies again for the ‘break in service’, have had a mid/late-life crisis – details to anyone interested but for the moment sufficient to state ‘no fool like an old fool’. Last Monday saw the first of my five-week (short course) W.E.A. course on the English Civil Wars, 1642-1651, sometimes known as the Wars of three Kingdoms