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By Tim Lambert
Early HertfordIn the 10th century King Edward built two burhs (fortified places) north and south of the River Lea at a place called the Harts Ford. One of them developed into Hertford Castle. The other became a civilian settlement.
By the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, Hertford had a population of more than 200. By the sta...
Have you ever finished your to-do list and still felt like you hadn’t earned a break? That nagging feeling that there’s always one more email, one more task, one more thing you should be doing? Plenty of people carry that feeling around as if it’s normal. Somewhere along the way, rest turned into something you have to justify instead of something you’re simply allowed to have...
By Tim Lambert
Early ElyEly began as an Anglo-Saxon settlement. It’s not certain where the name came from. It may have been Eel eg, meaning Eel Island. At any rate, a monastery was founded at Ely in 673. However it was destroyed by the Danes in 870. The monastery was re-founded in 970.
In 1070 Ely was the centre of a rebellion against the N...
By Tim Lambert
Early SohamThe village of Soham in Cambridgeshire began as an Anglo-Saxon settlement. The Old English word ham meant a homestead or village but the origin of the first part of its name is uncertain. It may have been Sae ham meaning the homestead by the pool (sae). Early in the 7th century a monastery was built in Soham but it was destro...
By Tim Lambert
On 30 September 1630, John Billington became the first person executed in America for murder.
On 11 May 1812 British prime minister Spencer Perceval was shot by a merchant named John Bellingham. Perceval was the only British prime minister to be assassinated. John Bellingham was hanged on 18 May 1812.
In 1849, Rebecca Sm...