Flower of the Month: Youths playing ‘badly’ in Berwick-upon-Tweed

This month’s Flower comes from the Northumberland border town of Berwick-upon-Tweed. The borough account book records some youthful shenanigans in the streets of Berwick in the early 1540s. An undated order from 5 Edward VI (1541/42) records that children in the town are ‘suffered’ (allowed) ‘to run abroad and make cryings’ and cause mayhem in […]

Flower of the Month: Stylish Yorkshire wedding celebrations: Elizabeth Nevile, 1526.

Among the papers of the Strickland-Constable family of Wassand Hall in the East Riding of Yorkshire, now lodged at the East Riding Archives (ERA) office in Beverley, is a modest little booklet, of paper bound in a piece of recycled parchment, which is listed in the ERA catalogue as ‘Sir John Nevile’s memoranda book. 1595’.[1] […]