This blog post was first published on The History Girls blogspot in November 2021. I have updated it slightly for today. ‘I need to know the story!’ declared my daughter one weekend recently, as she prowled about the house, picking up this and that ancient object that had first settled into her consciousness when she …
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The “outrageous wind” of 15th January 1362
I’m most grateful to The Times newspaper’s Weather Eye (not for the first time, it’s a wonderful source of historical snippets about weather-related events – do check it out if you can) for reminding me that this Saturday, the 15th of January, is the 660th anniversary of a particularly violent storm that seriously affected England, as well as Ireland …
Medieval climate change…
A couple of weeks ago here in the UK, we put our clocks back one hour from daylight saving time. So now it’s more or less dark by 5pm. I know that some people suffer from SAD, seasonal affective disorder, brought on by the shorter days. I’m not one of them but, even so, I …
Meonbridge children: grief and joy
Goodness, I posted my last blog back in May! I honestly hadn’t intended leaving it quite so long before writing another one but I have been somewhat distracted of late… And that distraction has not been because I’ve been tied to my desk writing the next Meonbridge Chronicle – although I AM indeed writing it, and …
“To terrify and teach…”
Recently, I read a book that I was surprised I hadn’t read before, as it was absolutely my kind of book: A Month in the Country, by J L Carr. The central story concerns a young man, Tom Birkin, who, in the aftermath of the First World War – from which he has returned damaged, mentally …
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