LORDS OF MISRULE – NOW IN AUDIO!
The last of the Roundheads & Cavaliers quartet is now an audiobook – as always, narrated by Alex Wyndham. Here’s what early reviewers are saying:-
“The twists and turns of the plot are brought wonderfully to life by Alex’s interpretation and we are whisked away to complex and fascinating times gone past. It’s a thoroughly enjoyable and very satisfying tale bringing the family sagas full circle.”
“Listening now…a total winner! Hurrah for the unrivalled combo Stella and Alex!”
“Alex Wyndham is masterful at bringing life to Stella Riley’s stories. I’ve listened to all the books in this series-multiple times- and loved them all.”
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Off topic, but I came across this “what did Oliver Cromwell see” article, which I found interesting. One point I have heard about the U.S. Civil War is that it exposed soldiers to areas of other states and a range of people they never would have met otherwise. I had not thought about the same broadening of outlook being the result of the civil wars in Britain.
Synopsis:
Oliver Cromwell is known to have been in the Southwest for several months in 1645 and 1646. A decade later, Cromwell asserted that Devon’s husbandry was the best of any English county.This paper explains the husbandry that Cromwell may have seen when he came to Devon.Attention is focused on what was different about Devonshire husbandry that would perhaps have been strange to Cromwell’s eyes.The abundance ofsmall fields enclosed by high hedgebanks may well have struck him as unusual. He might have seen evidence of the practice of’Devonshiring’or beat burning; the use of the ley as part of the rotation of crops; the absence of fallow; the cultivation of steep hillsides; the use of catch- work channels to create meadows on steep hillsides; and the application of calcareous sea-sand to sweeten the acid soils. A century and a half after Cromwell’s day, William Marshall made a study of agriculture in the Southwest which convinced him that the region’s husbandry was different from that practised elsewhere.Writing in 1796, Marshall described in detail the customs and ways of working the land that Cromwell almost certainly encountered. Drawing on Marshall’s work, as well as works of earlier writers, the paper explores how and why the husbandry of Devon and Cornwall was so strikingly
distinctive.
https://devonassoc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Husbandry-Stanes-TDA-2009.pdf
Don’t know if this is of interest, but I thought I would pass it on anyway.
Thanks, Barbara. It looks interesting and I’ll read it properly when I get the chance.
Yes! At last. I’ve been waiting for this. Can’t wait ?
Hope you enjoy it, Linda. It’s been a marathon getting all 4 R&C audios done – but, as ever, Alex is a star.
At last! Thank you, Stella and thank you, also, Alex. A wonderful story with a wonderful narrator.
Hope it was worth the wait, Paddy. I certainly think you’ll find Alex on top form!
I’m sure it will be. The team of Stella and Alex has always been stellar! (Oops! Forgive the pun!)
Forgiven!