Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 21
October 2, 2017
Building Rome’s Population
Rome in the beginning… Romulus needed to amass a population for his city, and so opened the gates, welcoming in the homeless, poor, criminals and slaves. He then divided them up into tribes, and selected 100 senators, as council of advisers.
The new city consisted of unsavoury inhabitants, and were viewed with much suspicion by the Latin and Sabine communities in the area. They refused to intermarry with these Romans.
Romulus needed wives for his citizens, to build...
Castle Haugh, Paythorne Bridge, Newsholme, Lancashire
11th century Castle Haugh, Lancashire, (from the north).
OS Grid Reference: SD 82997 50775. High above a bend in the river Ribble, of a mile south of Paythorne Bridge, Newsholme, Lancashire, is a large tree covered mound with a deep ditch running part-way around it, which is known as Castle Haugh or Cromwell’s Basin. The site is 1 mile north of Gisburn and close to the A682 Hellifield road. It is about of a mile further along from Little Painley burial mound...
Julia Tyler’s Premonition
Julia Gardiner Tyler spent only seven months as First Lady; then she went to live in Virginia.
JGT: The Young Wife
One of the earliest photographs of Julia Gardiner Tyler.
Julia Gardiner (1820-1889) was only 24 when she married sitting President John Tyler, a recent widower. At 54, Tyler was still considered a fine figure of a man; tall, lean, an excellent horseman, graceful dancer (of mild dances), splendid orator, and a Southern charmer of the first order.
In...
Free speech is a battlefield and the oppressed must unite
by the Maoist Internationalist Ministry of Prisons
Many in this country believe all citizens enjoy the right to free speech. But this is a myth. Free speech is reserved only for those who control the media and other power structures and those who agree with the political establishment. Oppressed nations in particular are regularly denied free speech, especially when that speech involves pointing out what’s wrong with Amerika.
Once locked up in U.$. prisons, people further los...
Change in the Weather
The weather actually did change very perceptibly here, at about 9:30 or 10:00 yesterday morning, from muggy late summer into breezy crisp fall. In about a half hour: I felt it, and everyone I ran into yesterday felt it too. But I still have weather history on the brain, so my title is referring to a volume by the amazing antiquarian of a century ago, Sidney Perley: Historic storms of New England : its gales, hurricanes, tornadoes, showers with thunder and lightning, great snow...
A Ghost Troubled by Wool
Creepy History 26. It’s October, and that means Creepy History month on Windows into History again! Let’s start by looking at a quote from A Relation of Apparitions of Spirits in the County of Monmouth and the Principality of Wales, by Rev Edmund Jones, published in 1813. Jones saw no problem with being a Christian and believing in ghosts, asking “is it reasonable to think that God who is a Spirit should create matter, as we see he hath done, even the whole material visi...
October 1, 2017
The Countess who Chastised a King
History... the interesting bits!
The arms of Hugh d’Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel
I recently came across the wonderful story of Isabel d’Aubigny, countess of Arundel, a woman who wouldn’t be cheated – even if it was by the king himself.
Isabel was born sometime in the late 1220s, the daughter of William de Warenne, 4th earl of Surrey and Warenne, and Matilda (or Maud) Marshal, daughter and co-heir of the Greatest Knight, William Marshal, earl of Pembroke. Through her grandfather, Hamelin Pl...
September 28, 2017
The Slave Auction Block at William and Charles
From John Hennessy. [A note: we have written about the slave auction block extensively over the years, but have been asked to bring together the research in a single post, easily accessed. To do that, we have drawn on four other posts, as well as some new research. If you want the full background–especially as it relates to the 1924 debate about the stone–you can find the first of the other posts here, and then click through.]
The shaped block of stone sits at the co...
