Feasting

Religious festivals are often celebrated with food and eating together. The household account rolls of Henry III, for example, reveal that feasting was a regular occurrence at his court particularly on the feast day of his favoured saint, Edward the Confessor, as well as at Christmas.  In 1225–6 while the typical daily expenditure of the …

Porcupines and Postage Stamps

Having recently blogged about the Grylls’ Collection, imagine our delight a few weeks ago when we uncovered one of the porcupine emblems from the top of the Grylls’ crest which originally adorned the bookcases specially-designed for his books. For reasons of space, these bookcases were decommissioned in the 1960s. The porcupine emblem led to some …