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,…