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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

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14 May 1922664720483356945

Imperial chestnuts and coppicing techniques spread across Europe the romans

How the humble chestnut traced the rise and fall of the Roman Empire

The chestnut trees of Europe tell a hidden story charting the fortunes of ancient Rome and the legacy it left in the continent's forests.

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4 May 1918983324795564118

But neither Villiers nor Gramont can hold a candle to Walden's own Betty Felton, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Suffolk. She packed a career of really startling promiscuity into a short life, dying in 1681 of "an apoplexy" aged 25, on the very day her mother did the same . Lady ...

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Here, the always-glamorous Barbara Villiers is in the portrait of her that has obsessed me for years, by John Michael Wright, c.1670. NPG. I love it so much, I knew it had to be the cover…

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4 May 1918983329736458341

... Betty eloped with the complaisant Sir Thomas Felton at 15 and continued her amours uninterrupted. She and her mother, another Barbara Villiers, also pretty busy about Court, were buried in a joint night-time funeral at St Mary's, Saffron Walden. The gorgeous portrait is ...

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4 May 1918983331821101139

... by Benedetto Gennari and was painted for the Duke of Monmouth who was one of many ... well, you get the picture.

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It's May Day, the opening of the month which in medieval literature is the most magical time of the year - a season for love, fairies, and marvellous dreams https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-may-miscellany.html

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