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Mark Forrest @markforrest.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Victoria County History for Dorset volume 2 (1908), sport section: 15 pages on hunting, half a page on polo and a page on falconry ... no mention of football, rugby or cricket ... #VCHDorset

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Mark Forrest @markforrest.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

While researching the manorial descent of West Dean and East Grimstead (Wilts) I came across John Evelyn, an MP who served in five parliaments 1629-1660 ...

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Mark Forrest @markforrest.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Unusual (self-taught or with very basic instruction?) hand. Notes attached to the head of an account roll, from Tarrant Gunville (Dorset), mid-14th century

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Mark Forrest @markforrest.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

East Grimstead inclosure map, 1818, showing the course of the Salisbury/Southampton canal as "the old canal"

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Mark Forrest @markforrest.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Looking forward to co-hosting the Working with Documents session tomorrow in the Local History Workshops series at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre with colleagues from @wiltshistory.bsky.social wshc.org.uk/events/

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Mark Forrest @markforrest.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

It seems that fussy silverfish don't like ink, so they graze around it and only eat the unprinted paper ...

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Mark Forrest @markforrest.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

File in which General Pitt-Rivers recommends the Roman-British quarry site at Pen Pits (with an over lying motte and bailey castle) should *not* be scheduled as an ancient monument

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Mark Forrest @markforrest.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Ministry of Agriculture farm survey 1942. This farm downgraded from A to B due to 'personal failings' because the farmer 'lacks initiative' ... probably too soon to identify them in my text ...

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Mark Forrest @markforrest.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

History TV series proposal: When Transcripts Go Bad - transcripts that are far more difficult to read than the original documents

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Mark Forrest @markforrest.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This little red symbol has been placed above the descriptions of all former demesne lands that had been incorporated into peasant tenements in 1518. Well done Glastonbury Abbey scribe!

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Mark Forrest @markforrest.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I'm looking at Stourton, no moated sites, but I do have a motte and bailey castle and a peer of the realm executed for murder ... but more important than all that there are perambulations of all three manors @wiltshistory.bsky.social

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Mark Forrest @markforrest.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Uncut pages come with such a weight of responsibility ... fear, excitement, self doubt, anticipation ...

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Mark Forrest @markforrest.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Note: pigeons may be more useful in airborne and maritime situations

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Mark Forrest @markforrest.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This beaver tailed 'S' has a particularly fancy beehive (Monkton Up Wimborne, c.1290) #fashion

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Mark Forrest @markforrest.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

9750 white plants purchased for the garden at Kington St Michael c.1550 #medieval #tudor #gardening @wiltshistory.bsky.social

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Mark Forrest @markforrest.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Not specifically, I found two membranes of medieval parchment with five line notation a few years ago, contacted DIAMM, they turned out to contain previously unknown and incomplete works, three musicologists ended up having a conference and writing a book about them, I had no idea ...

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Mark Forrest @markforrest.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

The Weymouth and Melcombe Regis war book, home front plans, instructions and schedules compiled during the Second World War, with leather patches and a corduroy cover!

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Mark Forrest @markforrest.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

No matter how long you work with archives the thrill of opening a box and finding documents that nobody's looked at for years never goes away ...

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Mark Forrest @markforrest.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

When selecting a heraldic animal you can't get much better than a rabbit

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