I’ve just helped the BBC :)

No I don’t want a badge. This is something that happens frequently at work. We get a phone call from a researcher on some TV show or another who needs information/photos etc and we do our best to provide them.

Since this occasion was about something close to my heart I thought I’d blog about it.

The first record we have for a market is in the Lordship Accounts for 1256 and 1257 [financial years went over 2 years in the 13th century just like they do now] where it was stated how much a man had t...