Subject Introduction
Historic buildings specialists often meet folk who are eager to talk about their properties and their enthusiasm is genuinely infectious. We can learn so much of value about a society by what it builds. However, romanticised and elaborated stories often grow up around certain mysterious features in mediaeval buildings – houses built of ship timbers, crusader graffiti, swordsmen fighting on spiral staircases, leper squints and secret passages – it is surprising how often these get repeated all across the country in so many different structures.
This category of talks is based on the popular Mediaeval Mythbusting Blog and will be the subject of a book: Historic Building Mythbusting – Uncovering Folklore, History and Archaeology via The History Press on 6 June 2024.
Please click on the individual lecture titles to learn more about each available topic.
General Introduction to Historic Building Mythbusting:
Detailed Talks Based On the Individual Chapters:
Local History Mythbusting:
