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Forgotten Stories: Joan Temmes, the last abbess of Lacock (opens the original)
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Three miles or so from Chippenham in the south west of England, there is a beautiful village that has retained many of its medieval features, some dating back to the 1400s and beyond. Most of the buildings there are built in a pale, honey-coloured stone, some with the silvery stripes of old and weathered timber framing. During the medieval era, Lacock in Wiltshire was well-known for its abbey, founded by Ela Countess of Salisbury in 1232. It held regular worship and centred around a community of
Forgotten Stories: Thomas Baltzar, Charles II's Violinist (opens the original)
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In around 1630 a boy, Thomas, was born in Lübeck in Germany. Little is known of his early life, but as his parents looked on at the infant wrapped in his cradle, they could never have imagined the fa… Read more
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