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March 14, 2016
Regency Personalities Series-Lord Charles FitzRoy (1764-1829)
Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of themany period notables.
General Lord Charles FitzRoy
17 July 1764 – 20 December 1829
Lord Charles FitzRoy was the second son of Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton and his first wife, Anne, a daughter of Henry Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth. After education at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he entered the army in 1782 as an ens...
March 13, 2016
Eleanor of England, Queen Leonor of Castile
History... the interesting bits!
Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile
On 13th October 1162 (1161 has also been suggested, but most sources agree on 1162) the Queen of England, gave birth to a 2nd daughter at Domfront Castle in Normandy, Eleanor. She was the 6th child of Europe’s most glamorous and controversial couple; Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Named after her mother Eleanor was baptised by Cardinal Henry of Pisa, with the chronicler Robert de Torigny standing as her godfather.
Of...
March 11, 2016
The Greek Hotel
The J. J. Goodhue homeat the corner of Market Street and Saltonstall Streets is visible in the 1872 Ipswich village map, and in the 1884 village map, but the 1910 village map identifies it as the …
Source: The Greek Hotel
The Greek Hotel
The J. J. Goodhue homeat the corner of Market Street and Saltonstall Streets is visible in the 1872 Ipswich village map, and in the 1884 village map, but the 1910 village map identifies it as the …
Source: The Greek Hotel
March 10, 2016
John Quincy Adams: When The People Cheered
John Quincy Adams, 6th President, and considered the most cosmopolitan man of his generation.
John Quincy Adams was a brilliant man of many substantive accomplishments. Popularity was not one of them.
JQA: A Spectacular Upbringing
By the time John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) was twenty-one, he was arguably the most cosmopolitan man of his generation in America.
John Quincy Adams was ten years old when he first went to Europe.
At ten, he had the good fortune to trav...
March 9, 2016
‘We Have No Interest…in the Claim”: A Cork City Affidavit After A Death at Malvern Hill
Irish in the American Civil War
The majority of posts on the site relate to information contained within the Widows and Dependents Pension Files. These files can contain dozens of different types of documents, ranging from military records to soldier’s letters. But the bulk of the social data is contained within the affidavits of family, friends, employers and others, which were submitted to prove certain aspects of the applicants claim, such as their dependency on a the soldier. In order to...
Castercliff Hillfort, Colne And Nelson, Lancashire
Castercliff Hillfort near Colne and Nelson, Lancashire.
OS grid reference:- SD 8849 3839.On Southfield Lane above the Lancashire towns of Colne and Nelson,is Castercliff hillfort, an Iron-Age contour and multivallate fort that dominates the landscape and is900 feet above sea-level. The fort and its defensive ramparts cover a large area of the high groundabove the two Lancashiretownsand is a well-known landmark inthese parts. The fort can be reached from Nelson b...
Nzinga!
Kicking off Women’s history month with Queen Anna Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (1583 – 1663).
Her father, King Kiluanji, favored Nzinga and let her watch him lead his kingdom from an early age. At this time, the Portuguese were running slave trades through the Congo and South West Africa and throughout Angola, colonizing villages as they went.
As she grew older, Nzinga was alwaysby her brother’s side during the political turmoil. After his suicide, she assumed control of her p...
March 8, 2016
Deadly physics: The “Herald of Free Enterprise” ferry disaster of 1987.
Twenty-nine years ago today, on March 6, 1987, a terrible and completely preventable tragedy occurred in the North Sea, just off the Belgian port of Zeebrugge. At about 6:00 that evening a car ferry called theHerald of Free Enterprise, owned and operated by Townsend Thoresen Company, left the dock at Zeebrugge with 459 passengers on board, their cars and a number of cargo trucks. She was headed for Dover, on the coast of England. Many of the passengers had been tempted by...
Ella Robson Guilfoyle’s “Echoes” part of CIRCUSFEST 2014….
Echoes, the first full-length work by emerging choreographer Ella Robson Guilfoyle, is a breath-taking combination of contemporary dance and circus. Via a full size trampoline, a trampowall and 2 chinese poles, this spectacular performance explores the extraordinary in the journeys and routines of our daily
Ella Robson-Guilfoyle’s “Echoes” | Photo: James Medcraf
Created& Choreography: Ella Robson-Guilfoyle
Composer: Jon Opstad
Cast:
Gabrielle Cook, Beren D’Amico, Louis Gift...
