WS member Richard Grant reports that a letter that has come to light reveals a connection between his Hampshire-based family and Lord Kitchener.
Kitchener may not have been history’s greatest general but he became the face of the world’s most …
I enjoyed Jim Gunter’s article in the Autumn Wessex Chronicle, Vol 11, Issue 3, but I take issue with one or two assertions.
Firstly, the “seaxe” portrayed is a heraldic device. The seax was an all-purpose tool used for chopping …
In recent years, WS Patron Lord Bath has passed the management of Longleat to his son, Ceawlin, Viscount Weymouth, whose plans for the estate have since ruffled a few feathers. The result has been a lot of misdirected criticism as …
The Olympic Games are a Greek invention and an English re-invention. Much Wenlock in Shropshire gets the credit for reviving the games in 1850, 46 years before Baron Pierre de Coubertin staged the international revival in Athens.
But Chipping Campden …