Category: Poets and poetry
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The Arundel Tomb
The Arbury Coffin, was an inspiration to the poetess, Sylvia Plath. Since that posting, I have received a picture post card which depicts the fourteenth-century table tomb, known as The Arundal Tomb, in Chichester cathedral. On top of the tomb lie the effigies of Richard Fitzalan Earl of Arundel, and his second wife, Eleanor (Plantagenet)…
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Furness Abbey: abbot, crozier, and ring
From my roving reporter, Woodwose: Furness Abbey grave yields treasures of a prosperous medieval abbot Unexpected medieval treasures have been discovered in a grave at one of the UK’s most beautiful abbeys along with the bones of the abbot they belonged to – probably a well-fed, little exercised man in his 40s who suffered from…
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WW1 poppies
Poppy plucked from the trenches goes on show BRITAIN’S oldest remembrance day poppy was on show for the first time yesterday. Private Cecil Roughton was just 17 when he picked the flower during a bloody battle in Arras, France, in May 1916 [1917?]. The soldier, from the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, kept it in his notebook…
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Finding Shakespeare
Is this the real Shakespeare at last? A PORTRAIT owned for nearly 300 years by a family will tomorrow be claimed as the only known picture of William Shakespeare painted during his lifetime. No other image, executed at first hand, is thought to exist of Britain’s greatest writer. The claim will be supported by the…
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Stonehenge healing
This is just one article of many recent news stories about the new interpretation of Stonehenge: Stonehenge as A&E unit is a revelation that druid mumbo jumbo can’t match Archaeologists excavating at Stonehenge, for the first time in half a century, are rewriting the map of British prehistory. Once again it is our old friend,…
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Perth buckle
Medieval belt buckle discovered Archaeologists unearthed a medieval belt buckle in Perth following work to repair a collapsed sewer. The group were allowed to examine the area in the Kirkgate as Scottish Water repaired the network. The copper alloy buckle is believed to date back to the 12th Century and was found along with animal…
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For St Valentine’s Day
In was sweet, sweetheart, a while Beneath the birchgrove’s shade to live. To cuddle up was even sweeter, In the wood’s retreat close hidden, Wandering hand in hand along the sea shore Lingering hand in hand along the wood shore… Lying beside each other in the grove, Mutually shunning folk, complicit in complaint, Living together…
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WWI ‘poppy’ letter
Hedd Wyn ‘poppy’ letter on show A wartime letter by poet Hedd Wyn [White Peace] in which the symbolism of the Remembrance Day poppy is evoked and predicted is on display at Bangor University. It is part of an exhibition on the shepherd and writer from Trawsfynydd in Gwynedd who died in World War I.…
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Rugby
…the market town in Warwichshire, not the game. We were there visiting family this weekend. Rugby is probably most famous for Rugby School, founded in 1567, where, William Webb Ellis is purported to have invented the game in 1823. The school is the setting for Tom Brown’s Schooldays by Thomas Hughes. The most recent television adaption…
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