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The 19th and early 20th centuries saw a vogue for nationalism in music. England was no exception. and three of its most important exponents came from Wessex. #EssentialWessex

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January 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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the 10th and 11th centuries, and he was barely mentioned in contemporary records. #EssentialWessex
January 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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John Cabot was the Anglicised name of Venetian explorer Zuan Caboto (c1450-c1500).
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January 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Jethro Tull (1671-1741) is best known for inspiring the name of a successful prog rock band, but many people will be dimly aware that the band’s name was taken from an agronomist and inventor of the seed-drill. #EssentialWessex

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January 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Vernacular architecture can refer to any building designed without the aid of a professional architect, but in the context of this article, it refers to traditional styles built using local materials.#EssentialWessex #vernaculararchitecture

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January 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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There are many nicknames for people from Wessex. The most obvious one is "wurzels". Whilst most people assume that Adge Cutler named his band after an already-existing name for people from the West Country #EssentialWessex.

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January 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Edward, the boy king of England from 975 until his death three years later while still a teenager, was famously murdered at Corfe Castle and buried at Shaftesbury Abbey. The circumstances of his death are unclear #EssentialWessex

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January 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Æthelred Unræd (966-1016) was a king of all the English, descended from the royal house of Wessex. He ascended to the throne as a boy, when his older brother, Edward the Martyr, was murdered at Corfe Castle. #ÆthelredUnræd #EssentialWessex

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January 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (c1475-1530) was born in Ipswich, but he has strong ties to Wessex. He graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford at the age of 15, earning himself the nickname "the boy bachelor". #EssentialWessex

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January 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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St Berin, or Birinus, is often known as the "Apostle of Wessex" #EssentialWessex #StBerin

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January 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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The use of aerial images in archaeology has its origins in the 1920s. One of its pioneers was O G S Crawford, who was born in India, but spent much of his life in Hampshire . #AerialArchaeology #EssentialWessex #OGSCrawford

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January 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Wessex's natural environment is under constant pressure from new construction.#EssentialWessex #NewburyBypass #TwyfordDown

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January 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Sr John Popham (1531-1607) was a notorious hanging judge who also served as MP for Lyme Regis and then Bristol, and as speaker of the House of Commons. He was noted for his harsh sentences, particularly towards thieves. #EssentialWessex...
January 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Links between Wessex and Brittany go back at least as far as the post-Roman period. The Bretons are thought to be the descendants of Brythonic-speaking emigrants from the kingdom of Dumnonia #Brittany #EssentialWessex

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January 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Gytha was the daughter of Harold Godwinson and Edith Swan-neck. Through her marriage to Vladimir Monomach, she became a grand princess of Kievan Rus after her father's death in 1066. #EssentialWessex #Gytha

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January 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Wessex is home to many breeds of domestic pig.#BerkshirePig #EssentialWessex #WessexSaddleback #HampshireHog #OxfordSandyAndBlack

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January 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Wessex is home to many breeds of feral pony, on Exmoor, Dartmoor, Lundy and in the New Forest. #EssentialWessex

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January 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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William Morris (1834-1896) was a leading light in the Arts and Crafts movement, which spread throughout the world, but was particularly centred on the Cotswolds. #EssentialWessex #WilliamMorris
January 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Wessex culture in this context does not mean the wider sense of anything to do with the region's history, heritage or arts scene. Rather, it refers to the early Bronze Age culture of what would later become Wessex. #EssentialWessex #Wessexculture

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January 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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After the Swing Riots (which will be the subject of their own article in due course) led to violent reprisals against the perpetrators, conditions #EssentialWessex #TolpuddleMartyrs https://wessexsociety.com/?p=11415
January 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Geoffrey of Monmouth (c1095-c1155) may bear the name of a Welsh town, but his best-known work, the History of the Kings of Britain was composed at Oxford Castle, where he appears to have been a secular canon. #EssentialWessex #GeoffreyofMonmouth https://wessexsociety.com/?p=11397
January 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Their proud works of war now lie waste and deserted; This fortress has fallen. Its defenders lie low, Its repairmen perished. #EssentialWessex #RomanRoads https://wessexsociety.com/?p=11279
January 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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The English system of weights and measures, like so much of England's history, began in Wessex. The Romans had a highly developed system of weights and measures, which was in use throughout the empire. #EssentialWessex https://wessexsociety.com/?p=11221
January 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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The earthlore (geology) of Wessex is a living remnant of its very beginnings in prehistory. #EssentialWessex #GeologyRocks https://wessexsociety.com/?p=11109
January 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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The Battle of Ellandun, fought near Swindon in September 825, is the battle that ended Mercian overlordship in southern England, and established West Saxon dominance. #Ellandune #EssentialWessex https://wessexsociety.com/?p=10999
January 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM