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The Execution and Burial of Roger Mortimer, First Earl of March (1287-1330)
The extreme contrasts of medieval brutality and courtesy are highlighted in the fate of Roger Mortimer of Wigmore, when even the dead could be the subject of vengeance.Read More...
Why Make Back-up Copies? The Mortimer Cartulary and the Technological Revolution . . . . . OUT OF PRINT
The fourteenth-century Mortimer Cartulary was an attempt by the family to both organise and safeguard their title to property. The manuscripts were badly damaged over time, and this paper describes Barbara Wright's attempts to reconstruct the original structure and content. . . . . OUT OF PRINTRead More...
Prime Objects of Civilization: The Mortimers of West Wales
In landed medieval society, the eldest son inherited everything, but he also had a duty to provide from that for the maintenance of family members. This paper looks at how this obligation to secure the family interests manifests itself in the Mortimer family of Wigmore in Herefordshire, particularly in relation to their almost unknown cadet branch in West Wales.Read More...
More Royal Interludes
"Skipton Castle and its Builders" by Richard T. Spence includes the chapter "More Royal Interludes" by Barbara Wright, covering the period 1322-1327, when Skipton Castle was held by the Crown after having been forfeited by Roger de Clifford for his rebellion against Edward II. It describes some of the day-to-day routines in the castle, and the changes that the King instituted.Read More...
Roads to Impoverishment and Thrift in the Wakefield Court Rolls (13th - 14th Centuries)
A gathering together of several articles by Dr Maria A. Moisa that were originally published in "Medieval Yorkshire" between 1994 and 2001.Read More...
The Dorothy Jowett Archives: A Family Record
Dorothy Jowett was born in Keighley, Yorkshire, in 1916, and lived there until she was thirteen. She died in Bradford in 2005. Because she was the last in her line, this record was made from her family stories and photographic collection to preserve them for posterity.Read More...
John Deacon's Book
Memoir of the founder of The Colonies, written on the eve of his elevation to the Council of Elders.Read More...
2018 Damsels and Dragons
We have been on Earth for 300 million years. We symbolize the ability to overcome times of hardship. Be what you are, and do it perfectly!Read More...
2017 Recycle
Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty. There seem to be two sides of this world, presented us at different times, as we see things in growth or dissolution, in life or death. And seen with the eye of the poet, as God sees them, all things are alive and beautiful. Henry David ThoreauRead More...
2016 Sheep
Sheep are very social animals. Animal behaviorists note that sheep need the presence of at least 4 or 5 sheep for comfort and, when grazing together, maintain a visual link to each other.Read More...
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