Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 66
October 3, 2016
No Petticoats Here
No Petticoats Here tells the stories of remarkable women who lived during the First World War, through song. As a folk singer, songwriter and some time teacher of history I take great interest in combining music with stories from the past. Frustrated at the relatively small amount of attention given to women’s stories during the centenary commemorations of the First World War, I decided to look closer at women’s achievements from this period.
My research took me from Flanders to the battlef...
Templars… Sinclairs…
Rosslyn Chapel, and the family lineage responsible for the construction of the “Bible in Stone” takes us first back to Normandy in France, then back even further to the Scandinavian Vikings.
Hrolf also known as Rollo (860-932), was the son of Rognvald, the Earl of More, the Viking warrior who plundered Europe’s coastlines, and went on to create the French Dukedom of Normandy, at the mouth of the River Seine.
Rollo was the great – great- great grandfather of William I of Eng...
October 1, 2016
Jake Burridge, the sailor
Jake Burridge, 1983. Photo from Ipswich Today.
In November 1982, Jake Burridge,already in his 60’s, set out on his 33-foot sailboat “Trepidation” from Gloucesterand set his course for the Bahamas. He’d made this trip before, but this time was harder. “There were gale watches all down the coast. It was windy, cold and miserable.” A trawlernamed “Lovely Lady,” that he was sailing with dragged its 65-pound anchor, and a ship from Hyannis was demolished, but Jake kept going....
September 27, 2016
Lower Colgarth Hill Burial Mound, Near Bell Busk, North Yorkshire
Lower Colgarth Hill, near Bell Busk (burial mound)
OS grid reference:- SD 90489 57365. At the foot of Lower Colgarth HillbesideCarseylands road about halfway between Bell Busk and Airton, north Yorkshire, there is a large and prominent Bronze Age burial mound (tumulus), which is close to a footpath and a ruined barn called Allamire Laithe.The burial moundis alsocalled a bowl barrow or round barrow in archaeological terms,although this one is more like a long bar...
Alexandre Cabanel’s The Birth of Venus (1863).
Fascinating history
If It Happened Yesterday, It's History
Inspiration often comes from my daily grind. I’ve said it many times before and today is no different. I bought a bottle of spring water and imagine my surprise, as I see a naked goddess obscuring her face, lying across an ocean wave, surrounded by cherubs as its logo. I laugh out loud, of course I would notice that, as I quench my thirst.
I am familiar with the story and imagery of the birth of Venus, though it is the painting by San...
Teddy Roosevelt’s “whistlestop” in Ipswich, 1912
Teddy Roosevelt on the campaign trail stops at the Ipswich Train Depot in 1912. The old Damon Block, which was destroyed by fire, is in the background. The present day Market Place stands on the site today. Thanks to Fran Richards for photo and text.
Campaigning as the vice-presidential nominee with William McKinley in 1900, Theodore Roosevelt conducted one of the most famous political campaigns in U.S. history,traveling by train and making480 stops in 23 states.Followin...
September 26, 2016
Rosalind Franklin
If you have as much as heard of ‘DNA’, the name Rosalind Franklin should be synonymous with it. This pioneering scientist played a crucial role in solving one of the great scientific questions of her time, and unfortunately did not live long enough to be given her due.
Rosalind Franklin was a British scientist born in the 20th Century. She graduated with a degree in Chemistry from Cambridge (where she witnessed the appointment of its first ever woman professor Dorothy Garrod), and later joi...
Templar Knights
Soldiers and knights, dressed to kill
ready to die, for King and country
with sword and axe in hand.
Battled scarred lands and rivers
run red with soldiers blood,
many a knight dies, for his beliefs.
Rosslyn Chapel, Templar Knights
laid to rest, in dead man’s mail
secret chamber, secret wealth
hidden from prying eyes.
Wikipedia Image
September 24, 2016
The Other Bermuda Triangle: Invasion attempts in Ireland, America, and Bermuda
Irish in the American Civil War
There is some superb research being undertaken into elements of the Irish diaspora at present, bothat home and abroad. The site has been fortunate to feature a number of guest posts in the past highlighting some of this scholarly research. I am delighted to be able to share a fascinating post prepared for the site by Jerome Devitt, a PhD Scholar at Trinity College, Dublin. Jerome has been working on British counterinsurgency in Ireland in the immediate afterma...
King Eadwig ‘All-Fair’, a ‘Wanton Youth’
History... the interesting bits!
King Eadwig
While researching Edward the Martyr and his stepmother, Ælfthryth, I came across a very interesting character. Eadwig (or Edwy) was young Edward’s uncle; the elder brother of Edward’s father, Edgar the Peaceable. Eadwig has one of the worst reputations of the Anglo-Saxon kings, even though he only reigned for 4 years; he was, supposedly, found in a compromising situation when he was meant to be presiding over his coronation feast.
I just had to...
