Good Gentlewoman Blog posts – Page 3 – Friends of Lydiard Park

Published on: 23rd January 2015

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Published on: 22nd January 2015

If you enjoyed reading about Anne Dudley, Countess of Warwick I'd now like to introduce you to her younger sister Margaret,...

Published on: 20th January 2015

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Published on: 14th January 2015

Keeping one's head in a crisis had a whole different connotation in the 16th century. And the more closely one was related...

Published on: 4th January 2015

Tudor fans this side of he pond are eagerly awaiting the launch of Wolf Hall, a major new BBC drama based on the Man Booker...

Published on: 28th December 2014

Chirk Castle has stood sentinel over the Welsh Marches for more than 700 years, one of a chain of 13th century fortresses...

Published on: 2nd September 2014

There appears to have been some confusion concerning the portraits of the three Molesworth sisters in the Springhill...

Published on: 28th July 2014

There's nothing that excites me more than finding a family with multiple links to the St Johns of Lydiard Park - I know,...

Published on: 27th June 2014

Ashdown House was the subject of a recent talk at Swindon Central Library by best selling author of historical...

Published on: 12th June 2014

If the family stories handed down to you included the fate of two first cousins twice removed, beheaded by a tyrannical...

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