@Pegs94349433 @druidtombraider @SaarNil72 @SundayFolklore @frome_maude She has a shrine, deep in rural Powys, at Pennant Melangell. Her first claim to fame, I think, was defending hares. Rabbits came later, along with other small beasts.
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Saffron Walden Historical Society
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Saffron Walden Historical Society
@SWaldenHistory
The Saffron Walden Historical Society, founded in 1933, organises eight lectures a year and publishes a magazine, the SWHJ, twice a year. We welcome new members
Saffron Walden, East Beigetreten Eylül 2021
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@druidtombraider @SaarNil72 @SundayFolklore @frome_maude Never heard of her before.
Love this!💕
Thanks for the info!
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In the Christian Tradition the egg symbolizes Christ's Resurrection, with the new born chick cracking through the hard shell representing his emergence the sealed tomb. #FolkloreSunday @SundayFolklore @frome_maude
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@wartsandbrawls The division of Seconds into upper and lower is a recent innovation, like the disappearance of the Fourth and Pass degrees. The latter did not allow the taking of an MA, so a schoolmaster with a BA hood, if an Oxford graduate, was a clear signal.
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The UK degree classifications are an inheritance from the time when students were evaluated on their ability to think, broadly:
1st - creative and independent thinker
2i - conventional, high quality
2ii - conventional, low quality
3rd - incidental display of passing quality
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4 Apr 1572: b. William Strachey in Saffron Walden #Essex #otd Writer on Virginia, whose work was disliked by the Virginia Company. His accounts are considered to be a source for #Shakespeare's Tempest (eebo)
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One of the most remarkable books I have read in years, a subtle, complete and convincing reinterpretation of Vermeer's life and work, rooted in the religion that shaped his mind and the Dutch Golden Age. Impossible now to look at his extraordinary paintings as we did before.
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This sign, in Wimbish, always gives me a little buzz of pleasure. Far from being a permissive path this is a primly celibate track
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This is a genuinely interesting story. Huge amount of automated work, potentially saving hundreds of thousands of human hours. BUT: with an error rate of 10%, and with the precise reading of *every* word mattering in such an exercise, it is meaningless, and for manuscripts of authority worse than useless, without a human checking every single word.
BUT: there simply aren't people, in 2026, with the expertise, the time, and the funding to check these 32,000 manuscripts at this level.
Welcome to Digital Humanities Slop.
Medievalists.net@Medievalists
Over 32,000 medieval manuscripts transcribed in four months using AI medievalists.net/2026/01/32000-… #medievalmanuscripts
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🎨 Atelier: St, John's Duxford. Signed, Limited Edition Print of 25no. digest.andymarshall.co/shop-st-johns-…
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And a pupil at Friends School Saffron Walden. Did the Quakers drive her into the arms of Rome?
Real Roman Catholic Women@RealRCWomen
Meet SVETLANA ALLILUYEVA / LANA PETERS (1926-2011), the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's daughter. Encountering Catholicism in Switzerland after defecting from the USSR, she visited Fátima in Portugal & converted in 1982 while based in Cambridge, Massachusetts as a U.S. citizen.
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@emswifthook You're right I think. Masaryk 'fell' from his bathroom window at the Foreign Ministry. Bath towels no substitute for dung heaps!
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@SWaldenHistory Might be the others were from a different window, perhaps?
I think that window was used in 1618 because that was the room they were meeting the Regents in.
But I could be wrong.
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Martinic and Slavata, the two regents who took the High Fall with their secretary, Fabricius, were saved by a dunghill or the Virgin Mary, selon gout. My money is on the dunghill.
Eleanor Swift-Hook@emswifthook
What often goes unmentioned is those who were defenestrated this time (Prague was big on the notion—this was the third time) all actually survived the 70ft fall. One, a secretary, raced with the news to Vienna and was later ennobled as Baron von Hohenfall—or Baron of Highfall...
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@emswifthook I wonder if the same issues arose each time they defenestrated someone. Surely by the third occasion they'd have wised up to any bouncing down the battening - or sly intervention by the BVM. By 1948 when Masaryk was defenestrated they seem to have worked it out more definitively.
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@emswifthook I am sceptical of a 70 foot fall onto a hard surface leaving three out of three alive and apparently with bones unbroken. Sure the dunghill was gleefully promoted by Protestants, but my money's still on it (or something squishy) over the BVM!
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In 1542 Saffron Walden was granted a fair on mid-Lent Saturday (liturgically speaking, yesterday). By 1662, when the town's fairs were regranted by Royal Commissioners, it had slithered to 'the Monday and Tuesday in Whitsun week'. Mothering nonetheless.
Eleanor Parker@ClerkofOxford
Today is Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent. Its oldest name in English is Mid-Lent Sunday, which goes back to the Anglo-Saxon name, 'Midlencten'. A brief respite from the sombre mood of Lent, it's the day people traditionally go 'mothering', also known as 'midlenting'.
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BBC News - Actor's metal detecting lesson sparks gold find at Saffron Walden - BBC News
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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@william_whyte @EnglishHeritage In a treasure of a town.
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@jdmccafferty Sorry to be picky! I love your posts. NPG has an engraved portrait. (And Wikipedia a couple of oil portraits though I can't immediately verify them.)
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@SWaldenHistory It is. But as it's the only image that I can find of him.
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16 Feb 1587: William Segar, then Somerset Herald, carries Philip Sidney's hatchments at the latter's funeral #otd
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Ickleton church receives heritage grant to conserve medieval wall paintings ift.tt/ORd6iEK
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... dissolution of Marie, late the Scottish Queen: of whose life and departure, whatsoever shall be expected, I have nothing to say for that I was unacquainted with the one, and not present at the other.") The same could be said of Dr H who seems also to have skipped her funeral
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... not much to say of him, his parts or actions, but shall enlarge this Paragraph of his being Bishop here with the story of Mary Queen of Scotts her death (10 pp with no mention of Dr H). Bp Wickham's sermon is agonisingly uncomfortable ("Let us blesse God for the happie ...
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I don't belive he did (preside). The funeral sermon was delivered by the Bishop of Lincoln, not by Howland; and Howland went completely unmentioned in Prescott-Innes's collection 'The Funeral of Mary Queen of Scots'. Not a whisper of his name. Gunton writes of Dr H, "We have ...
John McCafferty@jdmccafferty
7 Feb 1585: Richard Howland, Master of St. John's College Cambridge consecrated Bishop of #Peterborough #otd at #Lambeth. He retained the Mastership till 1587 with his see, most unusual. He also presided over the funeral of Mary Queen of #Scots that same year (U Aberdeen, 1682)
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