It’s always a shock of recognition when I’m working on the records and come across a character I’ve put in a book. Anyone remember Hawise and Elizabeth giggling about poor Lancelot Sawghell at the beginning […]
Today, Lord Mayor’s Walk is a busy section of the Inner Ring Road, following the line of the city walls between Monk Bar and Gillygate, but before the 18th century this was a track known […]
I’m back in York after ten days away, during which time I managed to pick up an irritating cold whose effects I am still trying to shake off. Perhaps I should have tried one of […]
Transcribing a few pages of York’s Wardmote Court Book every morning is my daily treat (sad, I know!) The bulk of the surviving 16th-century records run from 1575 to 1586, and now that I’m picking […]
Today, Patrick Pool is barely more than a lane, a shortcut to the market, but in the medieval period it was a much longer street stretching into what is now Swinegate. As so often, the […]
My resolution for 2014 is to make some real progress on the edition of York’s Wardmote Court Book, that I have been working on for the past nine years. I finally got myself set up […]
I have neglected this blog shamefully of late, it’s true, and my only excuse is that I have been on holiday, far from a computer – and it was bliss! I spent all of January […]
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