On 20 September 1675, flames tore through the thriving market town of Northampton. Within hours, three-quarters of the town lay in ruins.This book tells the story not with modern hindsight, but through the eyes of those who lived it. Using original pamphlets, poems, and letters -many published within days of the disaster- the Great Fire… Continue reading Great Fire of Northampton BOOK
Category: Georgian
Swing Riots in Northamptonshire
History is all around us, the past leaves footprints everywhere. You wouldn’t know it to look at them, but the stretches of farmland in Northamptonshire, a county which has long been prone to rebellion, were once almost battlegrounds of resistance… The Swing Movement When the fields of southern and eastern England were swaying in the… Continue reading Swing Riots in Northamptonshire
Jack Preston 