Agincourt: a Hollow Victory?
October 22, 2015
On October 25th 1415, an English army, on its last legs after a two-week march, inflicted a crushing defeat on the flower of French chivalry near a village in Picardy called Agincourt. Their triumph, the 600th anniversary of which is on Monday, seemed to sum of the indomitable spirit of the English nation: steadfastness, tenacity, …
The Dukeries and the Picturesque in Eighteenth-Century Nottinghamshire
October 20, 2015
In the mid-eighteenth century Horace Walpole described Nottinghamshire as ‘the Dukeries,’ referring to the fact that the county was synonymous with the splendour of its aristocratic landholdings. The most prominent of these were the four parkland estates made by enclosing the moors and waste of Sherwood: Rufford, Newstead, Welbeck and Worksop. Walpole described these compact …
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