by adminwww | May 14, 2017
Winter Fertility Customs The month of January witnessed a couple of interesting old fertility celebrations dating back many hundreds of years. These are Wassailing and Plough Monday. Wassailing The term wassail derives from the Old English “wes hal”, which means...
by adminwww | May 14, 2017
The Napoleonic War and the Threat of an Invasion Defensive Plans The Napoleonic War between Britain and France lasted from 1803 to 1815. However, Britain was becoming wary of France following its revolution and by 1790 an invasion was considered a real possibility. A...
by adminwww | May 14, 2017
An Extract from William Cobbett’s ‘Rural Rides’ William Cobbett was born in Farnham in 1763, the son of an innkeeper. He fled to America after being hounded for exposing corruption in the army. He returned to England in 1800 and became an investigative journalist, a...
by adminwww | May 14, 2017
Bray Williams – Governor of the Workhouse c1835 to 1851 A rather worn handwritten notebook has recently come into our possession after being discovered in the vicarage attic by Rev Simon Newham who was vicar from 2005 (?) to 2010. At first sight – and probably a...
by adminwww | May 14, 2017
The Killing of Sparrows The house sparrow originated in the Middle East and it spread along with agriculture to most of Eurasia, and North Africa. Since the mid-19th century, it has spread through much of the world, often due to deliberate introductions when it has...
