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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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The Buildings Archaeologist book tour starts next week (\ thread)... More info & tickets: triskeleheritage.com/the-building... #archaeology #history #architecture #thebuildingsarchaeologist #booktour

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benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A really excellent gathering of information on the medieval wall paintings of Pickering church I'd very much like to do a trip to Pickering - to see the church and the castle would be an excellent day trip

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benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There's a faint moon here to the side of Lincoln Cathedral's west front as the late afternoon soon was getting ready to set - the Cathedral looked excellent as well inside after darkness had fallen and an organ festival by Jeffrey Makinson had played out

benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

At today's visit to Gamston's Heritage Open Day, I found out about nearby Rockley (north Nottinghamshire) which didn't exist as a recognised place until the early 1800s. Prior to that, it was regarded as outlying land of nearby West Drayton.

benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am giving a talk on 'High Medieval Hayton; the medieval era as a fun way to begin' at 1pm, Wed 7 Oct 2026. It is online and free as part of All About That Place, being put on by the Society of Genealogists. sog.org.uk/welcome-to-a...

poster of All About That Place - taking place 7-16 Oct 2026 - 100s of free 10-min talks - Society of Genealogists

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Sharon Bennett Connolly @thehistorybits.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Looking forward to speaking about Nicholaa de la Haye - the Lady who Saved England - at Gainsborough Old Hall Join me on Tuesday 1 September. Talk starts at 7.30pm. Refreshments are available and it's only £4

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benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This will provide much interest as to which families these many daughters will have had and the various different lives they each lived out

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benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Bosworth medieval festival on the weekend was good to see James Wright's talk on 'The Architecture of Richard III' and Toni Mount's on 'The Medieval Housewife' - both excellent See @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social for James Also saw BritishHistoryExplorer who can be found on Instagram

Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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As you may have seen, @sogorg.bsky.social has recently added details of all the speakers for this year’s All About That Place, a free online event running from 7 to 16 October and featuring over 190 short talks on #FamilyHistory, #LocalHistory and #OnePlaceStudies! #OnePlaceWednesday

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All About That Place Speakers

Discover the speakers taking part in All About That Place. Browse over 150 names as our Speakers get ready to deliver 190+ talks!

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Who would like to come to book launch of The Buildings Archaeologist? This will be the only Nottingham date on the tour and will be held at the gorgeously independent @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social on Thursday 8 October. Tickets are limited to 42 seats: fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/james...

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benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I visited Tattershall Castle today and now have 3 different guidebooks - it's like having guided tours from 3 different people. Each time I visit, I get to delve a bit deeper into coming ever more alive in my mind - I also got to ponder the Tattershall deer park and chase whilst there

benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I was out at Gringley's Beacon Hill (north Notts) looking to understand where the boundaries of the medieval royal park there may have been - did the east edge follow the parish boundary? or may that edge have been a field or two further east into the Walkeringham parish?

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benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

and a study on employment on a single landed estate that goes back to before the Norman conquest from the looks of things (?)

benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

labouring life examined in a specific rural 1600s community sounds really quite interesting #earlymodern #17thcentury

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benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

today's question I'm pondering - was there a family connection between the de Lisors (de Lizours etc) families of north Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire ? I know the Notts part quite well, the Northants-based(?) family of that name I know not so well fmg.ac/Projects/Med...

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Liz @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New online 5-week mapping course from @sogorg.bsky.social starts 2 Nov 2026 portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/1... #OnePlaceWednesday #OnePlaceStudies #LocalHistory

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Maps for Genealogists

5-Week Course with expert tutors. Monday evening.

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benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

sharing the knowledge of an interesting resource for comparing county and town maps c.1610 kind of time

benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I've been wondering, if social media algorithms deliberately favoured more-positive, constructive and compassionate trends - would we start to see society begin to reflect these in how they see the world to at least some extent ?

benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

another quotepost - this one on the latest Tattershall Castle guidebook of 2025 from the National Trust and with plenty of input from buildings archaeologist James Wright - I'll have to get myself out to Tattershall again soon

benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I shall be catching James Wright for a talk he's doing at the Bosworth Medieval Festival > Sun 23 Aug 2026 that'll be

benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I've been wondering about how The Anarchy (1100s) may have affected/played out within the north & midlands. Does anyone know of a good book/resource that I may not know about? I've read a good general book on the anarchy, but a book on Ranulph, Earl of Chester or the Battle of Lincoln would be good

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benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I'll quotepost this reply James has given me about where the bricks for Tattershall Castle came from. The brick great tower was built from the 1430s into the 1440s (I gather) -so great to hear where bricks were being produced within the time of Henry VI -not long before the Wars of the Roses started

benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Retford's metal Detecting group people were joined by Meghan King, Finds Liaison Officer for the locality this evening. Next month, I'll be doing a presentation on local manorial history and making use of the data that is (mostly freely) available. Thu 3 Sep, 7pm, St Michael's parish hall, Retford

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benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I had a cursory look to see which knights/barons may have fought for (or indeed against) Richard III at Bosworth - but found that such records have been very difficult to discover, and perhaps made deliberately so by Henry Tudor (Henry VII) ? #WarsoftheRoses #RichardII #HenryVII #medieval #Notts

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benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Today's find - there was a Religious Census of 1851 - which looked to find out how well attended different churches were on a specific day in March that year & a general average for the preceding 12 months Here are Nottinghamshire's results: www.nottshistory.org.uk/resources/fi... #OnePlaceStudies

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Landowners from all over England gathered at Old Sarum, Wiltshire, #OTD in 1086. They swore fealty to King William I, and in return he shared with them the draft results of the Domesday Survey. This provided the visitors security of tenure after years of tumult. 📸Visit Wiltshire

An aerial image of Old Sarum at the centre of which lies the huge Norman inner mound and ditch, founded by King William I.

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benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

north Nottinghamshire has only a few manorial histories from what I've seen - I've been working on some and it'd be great to see some more in north Notts

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National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Our very own Emily revealing the secrets behind the parchmarks in the lawns at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire! @nationaltrust.org.uk BBC News - Parched lawn reveals historic garden at Derbyshire's Hardwick Hall - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Parched lawn reveals historic garden at Derbyshire's Hardwick Hall

The lawn patterns were created when the garden was remodelled in the early 1800s.

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benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A follow-up to the earlier note on medieval brick buildings. Brick-making was happening at Beverley and Hull from at least the 1300s. Examinations of bricks at Tattershall seem to use Lincolnshire clay. As for Gainsborough Old Hall and Thornton Abbey Gatehouse, I wonder where the bricks came from ?

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benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

My musing today is on medieval brick buildings. I know of surviving ones of Hull Cathedral, Beverley gatehouse, Thornton Abbey gatehouse and Gainsborough Hall - each being within reasonable traveling from Hull - could Hull have produced their bricks in each case?

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benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

a very interesting perspective on a 17th/18th century mill that I've never seen before - the photos here and excellent and interesting to see a painting to imagine things

benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Sheriff Robert de Jorz plaque and lectern - a chance to make a small donation to help provide medieval information on an very-well-preserved medieval tomb www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/sheriff-ro...

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Sheriff Robert de Jorz plaque and lectern

Sir Robert de Jorz is a C14th Sheriff of Nottingham he lies in Burton Joyce church we want a proper plaque on a wood lectern 2 mark his tomb

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benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Queen's 'Innuendo' album seems quite an appropriate soundtrack for doing manorial research: Headlong I Can't Live With You Don't Try So Hard Ride the Wild Wind All God's People These Are the Days of Our Lives The Show Must Go On and the particularly apt- I'm Going Slightly Mad

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benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

this has been one of a number of my go-to medieval podcasts - I think it was looking for a podcast on Robert de Vere (1362-1392), 9th Earl of Oxford that helped me find this one - some excellent subjects throughout the many episodes

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benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

@oneplacestudies.bsky.social Do we know when the next video meeting for members will be? If there's a defined place on the website that this information is always/usually available at, please let me know :)

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benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

today I have set up some lists - hopefully this'll help me to read up on what people and organisations are doing in a more focused way now

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benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

@englishheritage.bsky.social I wonder if you can put up just one really nice picture if you can some time

benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Looking up the possibility of delayed livery of seisin of lands in the early 1200s, gave me a good excuse to dip back into @marcmorris.bsky.social 's book on King John - and whilst there took some notes on Roger de Montbegon who held, amongst other lands, the Wapentake of Oswaldbeck in north Notts.

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benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Today I've been looking to better narrow down the birth and death dates of Matilda de Fournival née de Louvetot 'We' have known she lived for a long time, but without decently reliable birth and death dates, it's been tricky to work out her age. born: c. 1178, died: 1164-1165 - lived to about 86

benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I have a morning deep within the Pipe Rolls - this time looking to find some certainty, or closer to certainty, on the birth and death dates of members of the de Louvetot family of Sheffield (or Hallamshire) and Worksop.

benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

@alangodfreymaps.bsky.social The 1884 Godfrey maps of East Retford and West Retford were really helpful in looking understanding the growth in housing that accomodated the large rise in Ordsall parish's population in the 1800s - and where quite a lot of their workplaces were

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benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

joys of north Lincolnshire - a visit to see multiple Edward Burne-Jones stained glass windows - Visit St Paul's church, Morton (near Gainsborough) between 9.30am and 12.30pm on most Tuesdays & if you can leave the church a donation, that's excellent #prerapahelite #lincolnshire #art #freegalleries

Sharon Bennett Connolly @thehistorybits.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

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Just 5 days left to the paperback release of Heroines of the Tudor World in the UK #tudorsky Mybook.to/TudorHeroines

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Dates for The Buildings Archaeologist book tour are now live! I shall be asking the question: why do we know so little about the ancient buildings which surround our everyday lives? Full details of each show and ticket links are available via: triskeleheritage.com/the-building...

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benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

lots of medieval books - great to see - and I count early Tudor in medieval myself as the fall of the church at the dissolution marked a big change in the way English society worked and thought

benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

with some of the history projects I work on, I do sometimes ask myself: "is this genuinely useful or more insanity?" - is aiming to write out a manorial history of every north Nottinghamshire settlement an example of insanity is my latest question to myself ?

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benedictjephcote.bsky.social @benedictjephcote.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Today's mission involves looking for a meeting venue for a small group within the heart/centre of Nottinghamshire. Rainworth, Farnsfield and Oxton seem a good area but I have never yet visited any of these settlements.