Blogs in August 2020

Sins as Red as Scarlet: the true story of a Devon Town in Turmoil 25th August 2020

It is 1682. Across the land, the Age of Reason has begun; scientific thought is ousting superstitious belief. The menacing days of the witchfinder have all but gone. Nevertheless, in Devon’s county town, three impoverished women from Byddeforde are...

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Barefoot on the Cobbles – a Devon tragedy 15th November 2018

In the euphoria of the armistice a young woman lay dying. Daisy had grown up, barefoot on the cobbles, in a village on the rugged North Devon coast; she was mindful of the perils of the uncertain sea. Her...

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