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Guest Historian Dr Danny Buck has completed BA in Modern History at Lincoln College, Oxford and an Early Modern History PhD. He is an experienced Research Historian, his PhD Presbyterianism, Urban Politics, and Division: The 1645 Great Yarmouth Witch-Hunt in Context is a unique study of the local political and religious divisions that lay behind witch-hunting in Early Modern towns. He has published work on several Early Modern topics, including the chapter ‘The MP and the Astrologer: Rival cultures of witchcraft in the East Anglian witch-hunt’ in the Routledge volume Folklore, Magic, and Witchcraft: Cultural Exchanges from the Twelfth to Eighteenth Century and appeared on the History Rage, Thou Shalt Not Suffer, Witches of Scotland, and That Aged Well Podcasts.
Mendlesham Armoury conference / study day on 11 October
Put forward by Shona Rutherford-Edge (thank you for sharing Shona!)
Mendlesham Armoury conference / study day on 11 October this year. The speakers are excellent – Steven Gunn, Neil Younger, Simon Metcalf & Keith Dowen – and the opportunity to engage in a hands-on workshop with genuine 16th and 17th century arms and armour with David Edge, and to tour (well – rotate on the spot as its a tiny room) the Mendlesham Armoury with Toby Capwell is a treat. The booklets we are publishing transcribe all the churchwardens’ accounts, constables’ bills, wills, probate inventories, and a grievance petition, that are associated with the Mendlesham Trained Band between 1553 – 1694 . Please circulate this to your membership. with thanks, Shona on behalf of the Mendlesham Armoury
The Mendlesham Armoury: Reports and Reflections on the progress of the Mendlesham Armoury Research Project | Forthcoming Local History Events | British Association For Local History https://share.google/u3ZboUF2xcRXn5BtR
How Herring Privateers ruined Great Yarmouth
Introduction During the Wars of the Three Kingdoms the North Sea became a haven for Royalist privateers based out of Dunkirk and Jersey. These privateers were effective enough to cut off the vital coal trade from Northern England to London. However, this story was...