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In 1619 Edwin Sandys and refugees in Leiden organised the Mayflower expedition. It founded Plymouth Colony, for trade and toleration not war and conquest.
London, England
Joined September 2018
OTD 19 October 1745 death of Jonathan Swift,author of #GulliversTravels His fictional hero Lemuel Gulliver lived in Redriff (#rotherhithe) & returned here after travels to strange & unusual lands “Before he quitted Redriff,he left the custody of the following papers in my hands"
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Did you know that your Clerk/Auditor loves to act in his spare time? Our own Ricky Hatch is descended from William Bradford of Plymouth Colony and Mayflower fame. #winninginweber #webercounty #americanhistory #hobbies #weberelections #RickyHatchUT
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Quaker history is very cool! Join me on Wednesday evening for the @MuseumCromwell Spring Online Lecture Series. 😎 https://t.co/gM4hx6eyCU
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We're really looking forward to this! 😀
Quaker history is very cool! Join me on Wednesday evening for the @MuseumCromwell Spring Online Lecture Series. 😎 https://t.co/gM4hx6eyCU
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Today in 1619 King James I granted a charter to incorporate the New River Company. The New River was never a river and is no longer new but still brings fresh water into London. Read my article here https://t.co/YCM2dfaRAo or watch my video about it here https://t.co/2gPIZTA2wz
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Only a week now until the first of our spring online lecture series. Four top historians over successive weeks on aspects of the 1600s, this time covering subjects from radical republicans, religious groups and the outbreak of the civil war... https://t.co/Tzu2OyzKC4
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Next Wednesday 7th May a rare opportinity to hear about the Port of London Authority Archives held at the London Museum Docklands, from the Archivist herself, Fiona Keating. Full details can be found on the Thames & Docklands History Group website https://t.co/mwcQaXGoQh
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The Mayflower Pilgrims belonged to the Brownist Church, many of whose leaders enjoyed the dubious hospitality of the Clink Prison.
Ready to make history? Book your class trip to The Clink Prison Museum and watch your lessons come to life! In a group of 10 or more? Book a self-guided or guided tour and bring the sinister side of London's history to life. Email miranda@clink.co.uk for details @UKSchoolTrips
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Charles II purposefully engineered the execution of Sir Henry Vane of Belleau #Lincolnshire. He was a former governor of #Massachusetts. Unlike others who died, he was not a regicide.
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As explained in my book, Mayflower in Britain, the conferences mentioned by @MuseumCromwell were organised by Brownist leader, Henry Jessey. Brownists had earlier organised the Mayflower expedition of 1620. Settling the English in America and the Jews in England was no mean feat.
#OnThisDay 4 December 1655 The first of a series of twice-weekly conferences of theologians, politicians and merchants met at Whitehall to discuss with Oliver Cromwell the readmission of the Jewish community into England. #17thCentury #OTD Portrait in our collection.
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The Mayflower Pilgrims played their music on the lute, not the flute, and played their psalms in English, not Latin, but the Mayflower's London passengers did embark from Blackwall, in Poplar.
Today we started using the note b on our flutes and learnt a Latin piece of music! We’re making great progress with this challenging instrument. #Hockney #Year5 #UKS2
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Mayflower 400 DVD https://t.co/vLeI9o08SR Inc contributions from over 40 academics, historians & experts. #mayflower400 #mayflowerdescendant #mayflowerstory #mayflowerpassenger
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Tonight!Wednesday 27 November @RBHistory Talk by James Wright @jpwarchaeology Norwegian Church Albion St #se16 7LN @se16albion @AllOur_Stories
Wed Nov 27 7.30-9 pm @RBHistory Medieval Myth Busting Talk by James Wright award-winning buildings archaeologist Norwegian Church 12 Albion St #SE16 7LN Go to any ancient building & there will be interesting,exciting & romantic stories but are they really true? @jpwarchaeology
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This had long been a demand of the Brownists of the Mayflower and the Anabaptists, and it remained a demand of the Quakers, as Latin was still used in law after 1650.
#OnThisDay 22 November 1650, Parliament passed an Act for holding legal proceedings in English rather than Latin. Whilst trials were held in English, there had been no guarantee that those standing trial could understand documentation used against them. #17thCentury #Justice #Law
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Everyone knows #Thanksgiving was first celebrated by the #Mayflower setters. Not so. Bright idea of US woman's #magazine editor in 1827. Lincoln saw it as useful ploy during Civil War and decreed last Thursday in November as the day 'to heal wounds of the nation'
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#OnThisDay 21 November 1642 the Parliamentary garrison of Exeter, led by the Mayor Christopher Clarke, launched a dawn raid on Royalist besiegers led by Ralph Hopton. As a result the Royalists were forced to withdraw. #WonderIfHeWoreHisGoldChain #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #OTD
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This small alley leading to the Thames under Butler's Wharf at Bermondsey has the strange name of Maggie Blake's Cause. In the 1980s Maggie and others successfully campaigned to have the riverside, with its wonderful views of Tower Bridge, opened up to local people and visitors.
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On a recent tour with a #Baptist group we visited Marnham, where Baptist founder John Smyth was arrested for 'riot.' We have a huge amount of Baptist history to offer, so book a tour with us!
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The second of our online autumn lectures is this evening, Wednesday 13 November, when @amm_hunt will be talking about the Republic - based on her new, bestselling book! 😀Details at: https://t.co/mcCr5h60Jg
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