by Margaret Pearce
Tutankhamun is sometimes described as the most famous and
least important of all the Pharaohs, he was completely forgotten after his
death. He was a minor child king who
ruled for 9 years from about 1332 BC until his death aged 18 or 19 years old.
Originally my
subject was the history of the Bayeux tapestry – the information taken from a
book called The Threads of Life by someone who was a textile curator for 20
years. But as I continued to read this
book, I soon found it was not only about the tapestry but also contained other
stories, in fact a History of the World through the eye of a needle!
by Jenny Meader
My talk is about someone who used to live in my village,
Woodsford, and what happened to him during WW2.
First, a few words about Woodsford. It’s a very small village,
more of a hamlet, with a few houses and a church, but it also has the only
thatched castle in Britain. In the early
14th century, William de
Whitefield asked permission to ‘crenellate the dwelling place of his manor’, in
other words to add defences, possibly against raids by the French. Most
of the present building is the work of Sir Guy de Bryan, who bought the manor
in 1367. Sir Guy de Bryan was a
favourite of Edward III, and among his many honours, he was made Admiral of the
West.
