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Showing posts with label Local History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Local History. Show all posts
Tuesday, 19 August 2025

PULL UP A CHAIR TO CUNNY CORNER – THE PODCAST LIFTING THE SKIRTS OF VICTORIAN BARNSTAPLE

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Forget prim bonnets and polite parlours – Cunny Corner is here to tell you what really went on in the back alleys, taverns, and courtrooms ...
Monday, 11 August 2025

Hepworth, Moore and Lowry come to North Devon as part of summer exhibition

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‘Into Abstraction: Modern British Art and the Landscape’ runs until 14 September at The Burton at Bideford. Free entry. Works by a host of w...
Friday, 19 April 2024

A Torrington Scandal. 'The Ordeal of Miss Lucy Jones'

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A Devon author who specialises in breathing life into true stories from the past has chosen a remarkable Torrington story for her latest boo...
Wednesday, 13 July 2022

Summer Signings. Devon author, Liz Shakespeare bringing new life to Devon's past.

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One Devon author is looking forward to a busy summer. Liz Shakespeare, who specialises in breathing life into true stories from Devon’s past...
Monday, 12 October 2020

Compelling Storytelling. 'Song of the Skylark', a new Devon book by Liz Shakespeare

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Two hundred years ago in North Devon, a young girl stands on a table before an audience of farmers. ‘Mary Mitchell, nine years old. Draws ...
Saturday, 28 March 2020

What a gift - 'Postman Poet' author sends books set in Devon by post, without leaving home

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At this difficult time when most of the shops are shut, one Devon author is offering to post copies of her books to readers – without leav...
Tuesday, 15 January 2019

"A Sigh for Devon" - Bicentenary of Edward Capern’s birth.

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It was two hundred years ago, on 21st January 1819, that Edward Capern, Devon’s Postman Poet, was born into a poor, working-class famil...