Wessex on Screen: Inspector Morse
Inspector Endeavour Morse is the creation of Colin Dexter, the star of 13 novels, a short story collection and two successful TV series. He is now so associated with Oxford,…
Wessex Attractions: Frogmore House
Frogmore House is a country house in Berkshire owned by the Crown Estates. It was built during the reign of Charles II by one Hugh May. A story that May…
Book Review: Britanniae Gloria by George Ioannou
George Ioannou is a London-based iconographer of Greek-Cypriot descent, and a follower of the Society's Facebook page. He has just published Britanniae Gloria, the Glory of Britain: An Iconographer's Pattern…
Wessex Worthies: Thomas Chatterton
Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) was Bristol's very own rock'n'roll suicide, 200 years before rock'n'roll was born. A precocious child, he was, by the age of 12, able to pass off his…
Burley
In the late 1920's the Grant family decided to live in Burley. In 1930,Lettice Grant (nee Rooke) bought a property in Bisterne Close, moving fromWestbourne in Bournemouth. Prior to that…
Icon of St Berin baptising King Cynegils
St Berin, Apostle of Wessex
This article is the first in a new series, Essential Wessex, outlining key moments in Wessex history St Berin, more commonly known by the Latinised form of his name, Birinus,…
Labour’s Regional Manifestos Examined
As mentioned in our previous post, Labour announced yesterday that it would be launching manifestos for each of the nine English government zones. We have now read the manifestos for…
Wessex Attractions: Farnborough Hall
Apologies in advance to anyone who uses this blog as a guide to days out (I'm sure there must be thousands of you). My magic blog post randomiser, which tells…
London Parties Manifesto Review
With the election just two weeks away, I thought it would be a good idea to examine the manifestos of the main London parties running in Wessex, to see how…
Wessex in Fiction: The Ghost Sonata
The Ghost Sonata is the third in the Gilda Joyce series of young adult mystery novels by Jennifer Allison. Gilda Joyce is a teenager who solves mysteries using a ouija…
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