Mark Forrest
@mpforrest1967
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Archivist, mostly medieval, @UWEBristol, editing sections of @VCHGloucester & @WiltsHistory. Committees: SDNQ, Proceedings of DNHAS. Dorset Record Society.
Dorset
Joined January 2015
RT @SouthHistSoc: Southern History Society is an educational charity led by academics and based @WinchesterHist. Despite having no formal f….
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G.K Kidston really selling his subject in the opening chapter of "The Bonhams of Wiltshire and Essex" . but, meticulous detail is what I'm here for . @WiltsHistory
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RT @sarumchron: Louise will be talking about further witchcraft research in her lecture “Witchcraft & Tudor Salisbury” on Monday 4th Novemb….
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The Sarum Chronicle annual lecture has become an established feature of the historical scene in Salisbury. Each Autumn a well-known historian is invited to use their recent research to speak on a t…
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RT @LRylandEpton: Today I have written about a 16th cent. witchcraft accusation & a community response to WWII for @VCH_London, but it coul….
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RT @CathAMClarke: A highlight of Saturday's Study Day from @WiltsHistory at @HeritageWSHC was seeing two of our colleagues (@john_hobnob &….
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RT @LRylandEpton: On 21 Sep there is a free event in Chippenham exploring the lives of women before 1600 (inc👇supposedly the ex abbess of W….
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RT @PortlandMuseum1: FREE ENTRY FOR EVERYONE THIS WEEKEND!! ✨. For Heritage Open Days this year we are offering EVERYONE free entry to Port….
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RT @BALHNews: #ICYMI: Join us on Thursday 5th December for our Dymond Lecture! We will be joined by Professors @Medievalmariner and John Mc….
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RT @VCH_London: #ComingSoon (ish). A very special #BigRedBook. 📕. This volume will be our first *ever* publication for the historic county….
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Sherborne Abbey robbery, police statement: "We are keen to trace the movement of the offenders in the areas of Hospital Lane, Abbey Road, Church Lane and Half Moon Street so I would ask local residents to please check their home CCTV".
I am absolutely outraged at what was clearly a highly organised robbery. I urge anyone with any information to come forward.
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RT @pablodiablo74: Hoping to see many of you there for our first collaborative conference of the year. You can join us in Taunton too on 12….
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RT @SDNQuk: Thanks to Windrose Rural Media Trust, GWR passengers can now while away their journey watching archive film footage of stops al….
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Thanks to Windrose Rural Media Trust, Great Western Railway (GWR) passengers can now while away their journey watching archive film footage of stops along the GWR line. Inspired by Great Western Ap…
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RT @LRylandEpton: After debunking a few myths this week about Maud Heath, in September, some @VCH_London friends (@mpforrest1967, @GraceOwe….
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RT @VCH_London: All are welcome to this session, but it may be of particular interest to local #VCH groups (and perhaps other local history….
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RT @RuthSlatter: It’s going to be such a pleasure to welcome my former colleague, research partner & wonderful friend @HannahWorthen to spe….
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Genuinely perplexed as to how to pronounce William Fondgh's surname .
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Amazing how may places in this 1633 survey of Maiden Bradley can be located on modern maps. My favourite so far is Elizabeth Rowe's new house, recently built in a pit (i.e. hollow) called Catbench.@WiltsHistory
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RT @LRylandEpton: Working for your book’s publisher @hobnob_press means you can check the file before it gets sent to the printer. It looke….
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The volume will be on sale at a substantial discount, further details here:.
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Dorset Standing Committee 1646, with Strangways Letters c.1643-1659, edited by Tim Goodwin. In 1982 a missing portion of the Minutes of the Dorset Standing Committee was discovered at Kingston Lacy…
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