New book to be launched on the life of Henry Winstanley
Sir William Waad, Lieutenant of the Tower, and the Gunpowder Plot
When Sir William Waad became Lieutenant of the Tower of London in August 1605, only three months before the Gunpowder Plot, it was the culmination of a lifetime of service to the Crown
The Flying Serpent: or Strange News Out of Essex
In Janaury 1669 the writer and historian William Winstanley published a pamphlet entitled The Flying Serpent or Strange News out of Essex. It describes in graphic detail the appearance of a fearsome dragon or winged serpent at Henham, near Saffron Walden
Henry Winstanley biography – book published
A major 450pp biography of Winstanley, one of Walden’s greatest sons. With 50 illustrations and a full illustrated catalogue raisonné of his etchings.