Resurgam: The Battle of Brentford November 1642 – memorialising the dead
The exhumation and reinterring of bodies buried in the graveyard of St Lawrence’s Brentford began on the 28th June. A number of the combatants from both sides were laid to rest in this graveyard. The developers, Ballymore, have indicated that they would work with interested parties to erect a monument commemorating the fallen. The Society ... Read more
The Winter 2021/22 edition of The Patriot Newsletter
Click on this link to see a copy of edition No. 100 of The Patriot2022 Annual General Meeting – 27th March at Hampden House
The trustees are extremely grateful to the Oliver family for agreeing to host our AGM at Hampden House on Sunday, March 27th 2022. We hope that as many of you as possible will be able to attend a church service before the AGM (11.15am start) at St Mary Magdelene’s Great Hampden. Light refreshments will be ... Read more28th February: Talk by Dr Ismini Pells “Holes in the head, imbecilic legs and a ‘woolfe’ in the arm”
The evidence for Civil War medical practice from maimed soldiers’ petitions: Dr Pells researches 17th-century military and medical history. She is an academic advisor to the National Army Museum and the National Civil War Centre. Using the material gathered by the Civil War Petitions project, this talk will bring to light the treatments described in these documents ... Read more
