Category: History Posts
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Stand and Deliver!
YOUR MONEY OR YOUR…. They’ve inspired legend, folklore, Adam Ant’s 1981 classic (sorry if you’re singing along already, it’s been stuck in our heads for days!), hilarious Horrible Histories sketches, and a whirl of Victorian fiction, fantasy and fandom…. But what were those highwaymen all about? Where did those legends start? Did they ever roam…
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Before Bosworth
On the 19th August 1485, a motley but powerful army made its way through Lichfield, on route to winning one of the most important battles in British history. Imagine thousands of medieval soldiers, drawn from all corners of France, Wales, Scotland and England. With swords, bows, cannon and warhorses they marched, past our castle-like Cathedral…
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The Happy Sinner
On 3rd July 1691, army surgeon Richard Cromwel was executed in Lichfield for murder. A publication featuring his final prayers and pre-execution speech was sold by Michael Johnson, the bookselling father of Samuel. As a bizarre bonus, the book entitled, ‘The Happy Sinner; or The Penitent Malefactor’, also included Cromwel’s legacy, in the form of…
Lichfield Discovered 