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Some photos from the 2019 May Day bank holiday in York (credits: M. Chambers)
Recent Posts
Complete University Guide Rankings: Tooting One’s Own Horn
For the second year in a row, Durham University was ranked 6th overall in the Complete University Guide UK rankings, and 1st for English! Forgive the local team for the shameless self-promotion, but fellow REED members and enthusiasts can feel proud that the REED North-East project played its part. Here are the standings for 2020: https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings/?s=English […]
Flower of the Month: The Percys’ Fool in the New World?
The Percy family documents seldom provide much information about named performers, but for Thomas Wigen or Wyggen, the references suggest an eventful, perhaps harrowing life. He appears first in 1605 in a menial role, paid 6 s 8 d ‘for taking up foundations in the garden May the 13˹th˺’.[1] More interesting is a taylor’s bill […]
This weekend: Shakespeare’s Cymbeline in York!
The York Shakespeare Project is mounting a unique set of performances of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. Catch it this weekend in the beautiful Merchant Taylors’ Hall in York. See below for details:
Flower of the Month: a New Year’s Day play in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Among the usual records of fornication, adultery, playing cards during service times, marrying without having the banns read properly and similar infringements, the Archbishop of York’s Visitation Book for 1615 has a most intriguing entry1: This is kind of entry REED editors trawl Visitation books in the hope of finding, but what can we make of it? […]
Flower of the Month: More Evidence of Boy Bishops in Durham
The custom of choosing a boy to act as ‘Bishop’ for one or more days each year, often with a considerable element of parody, was familiar throughout western Europe in the later Middle Ages. The Boy Bishop of Durham was chosen from among the children of the Almonry School, founded around 1340, whose schoolroom was […]
Happy New Year from REED North-East
Happy New Year from the whole team here at REED North-East. We wish you all warm and joyous wishes for 2019!
Souls of the North (Performance, 10th November)
After a sellout performance in September, we’re proud to return with another free Souls of the North show, featuring medieval and Renaissance music, dancing and drama with a deathly twist. Come to the Great Hall, Durham Castle on 10th November at 20.00 – if you dare! Souls of the North presents now-neglected traditions from the […]
REED Pre-Pub Launch: Records from the Durham Cathedral Treasurer’s Books
REED: Durham editors are pleased to announce the launch of the ‘pre-pub’ records from the post-Reformation accounts of Durham Cathedral. After the death of the first dean (and last prior), Hugh Whitehead, in 1548, Durham had a succession of strongly protestant deans, one of whom, William Whittingham, dean 1563-79, had even spent some years in […]