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History News Archive

The Saffron Walden Historical Journal carries a number of shorter items as ‘History News’ regarding history-related events in the locality, usually at the end of the journal, but sometimes on other pages.
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History News Archive 2023– 2024

Ashdon Windmill The featured picture above is © David Nicol Ashdon Windmill was originally constructed c. 1754-7 and remains as an important landmark on the outskirts of the village. Ashdon Windmill Trust was formed to save, acquire and restore the mill to working condition. In 2024, to keep the mill sound and fully functional, it needed repainting to ensure timbers

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History News Archive 2006 – 2007

Saffron Walden Town Council agreed to discuss the possibility of commemorating the fact that the Parliamentary Army was stationed in Saffron Walden in 1647

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History News Archive 2004- 2005

This rare arrow- head from the Middle Bronze Age (1275- 1140 BC) has been donate to Saffron Walden Museum, after being found by a metal detectorist in north-west Essex

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History News Archive 2001 – 2003

A bronze plaque in memory of William Campling, the Saffron Walden Chief Constable murdered in 1849, has been placed in Bridge Street, near to where he was shot.

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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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@SWaldenHistory ·
17 Sep 2100601920675094812

I do love AI. Can the human race really be under threat from a mechanical life form which writes "Sir Thomas Dagworth lived from 1276 to July 1450 (or 1352 depending on historical records)"? There is still some way to go.

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16 Sep 2100247587030782308

European Knight, made by a 16thC Japanese student. The Jesuits established a painting school in Nagasaki in the late 16th century.
Students were taught to produce these European style oil paintings and engravings. (Tokyo National Museum)

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23 Aug 2091583838556152093

The smile on the Cheshire Cat - the Venetian window in the nursery school at Peak Forest was once the east window of the Chapel dedicated to St Charles King & Martyr. Built by Christiana, Duchess of Devonshire, it was an unconventional, not to say risky, dedication for 1657 but

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23 Aug 2091583843778146610

... the Duchess was unintimidated and Peak Forest was a non-diocesan peculiar. This also allowed the incumbent a lucrative business in no-banns instant marriages which ended only with the Hardwick Marriage Act in 1857 ... and even then squeaked on discreetly in a few cases.

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20 Aug 2090447855085371548

Short but very kind review in Print Quarterly of my Winstanley biography by Antony Griffiths, formerly Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum.

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