Glad you enjoyed it ☺️👍

Many thanks for your clarifications - really helpful. So, although the Dominicans were friars (hence, the “Black Friars”, they actually lived in a priory under a prior? Is that correct? Best wishes, Jim

@@HiddenHistoriesofLeicester exactly so. Think of Holy Cross in Leicester today. Dominican house full of friars but called a priory and has a prior. Same goes for the Carmelites or Whitefriars at - Ayelsford and in Kensington and the Augustinian Friars at Hoxton priory… and by implication old pre ref St Katherine’s and St Clements in Leicester. The only mendicant orders to call their houses friaries are the ones inspired by St Francis of Assisi. So the Order of Friars Minor, the OFM Conventual, the OFM Capuchin, and the newer OFMs founded since John Paul II. It’s a major post reformation error tho that’s absolutely all over the place in Nichols and his equivalents for other counties, and the VCH almost always gets it wrong. Don’t blame yourself for not picking it up. This history requires a certain familiarity with Catholic law and traditions which isn’t common these days… plus you’re fighting against a million post reformation sources that simply got themselves confused because there weren’t any actual friars left to correct them

Many thanks - that’s really helpful!! If ok, next time I venture into the realms of the medieval church, would you be happy for me to check my terminology etc with you in advance?

@@HiddenHistoriesofLeicester please please do. And I’m in Leicester so do reach out if you wanted to do a video inside the medieval parish church’s - id be so happy to help put something together to explain the liturgical point behind the various features if you got to doing a video inside st Margaret’s/St Mary de Castro/St Nicks - less obvious stuff like the functions of Easter Sepulchres and piscinae and those distinctly Gallican and Anglo Saxon church features are a particular obsession

Are you referring to the measurements I give for the height, width and foundations of the walls?

New episode being actively researched written. 😃 Hoping I can get it finished, filmed and out in March! 🤞🤞🤞🤞

Karl - Have you seen my Hidden Histories of Leicester Facebook page? There’s some films on there about the Reformation and Counter-Reformation that I did for English Heritage that I can’t post on my KZfaq Channel 👍 Hopefully they’ll keep you entertained until I get my next episode published! 🤞

I'm looking it up now, thanks, Jim....

Yes! 😃 I started writing the next episode this week actually! 😱 Still researching as I go, but hoping I can get it finished by the end of Feb 🤞🤞🤞👍

Hi!

Thank you 👍

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it 😃👍

Hi Karl! The quick answer is ‘Yes!’ 😃👍🏻 The slightly longer answer is, ‘I’m not sure when!’ 😬🙈 I work freelance which means I have to take the jobs when I can get them and for the past 18months I have been run-off my feet (which is a good thing as it pays the bills! 😉). I already have the next episode half written and loads of other episode ideas in my head, so plenty more stories I’d still like to tell! I’m hoping things will calm down a bit over the autumn so that I can get some more episodes written. 🤞🤞🤞In the meantime, I do some guided walks and cycle rides linked to the episodes, so keep an eye on Facebook @HiddenHistoriesofLeicester and Twitter @HiddenHistorie3 for details of those. 👍🏻 Thanks for the support - it really is appreciated! Jim 😊

Thank you for replying.... and I've have now joined u on FB.... Thanks again.. all the best Karl...

Hi! The problem with doing an episode on the plague is that, although we know Leicester would have been affected by it, there is very little archaeological evidence discovered thus far*. Having said that, a recent discovery is a suspected plague pit, but until the scientific analysis comes back, we won’t be sure - and that could take a couple of years. (*previous mass burials have turned out to be earlier or later than the 14th century Black Death and linked to things like famine as opposed to plague). However, I will have a scout around the wider county and see what evidence I can find and if there’s enough, I will happily write an episode on it! 😃👍🏻

Glad you enjoyed it! Hope you find the other episodes as interesting 🤞👍🏻

Have fun! Hope you enjoy the other episodes as much! 🤞👍🏻😃

All I can say is, as soon as I possibly can! I’ve started writing a couple of new episodes and even filmed part of one, but I have been a bit of a victim of my own success in the day job, meaning that I’m being pulled in all directions and having very little time to spend on making the films. My current contracts are due to end in July and August so, whilst still hoping I have enough work to pay the bills, I’m hoping I’ll be able to spend some time finishing these new episodes! 🤞🤞🤞 For the latest updates be sure to subscribe her and also follow me via Twitter @HiddenHistorie3 or on Facebook @HiddenHistoriesof Leicester, where there are also details of guided walks, rides and other events I do. 🙂

Thanks for the reply. You have to pay the bills first. Good luck with the day job. Just to let you know I watched you film the first of the two ladies episode at the back of our house, I was surprised ther was no mention of the saxon village at the back of Glen Parva Manor.

Ha, you must have wondered what that weird guy was doing at the back of your house for what seemed like forever (There were lots of out-takes)!! 🙈🤣. The trouble I have as I research each episode, I could almost write an episode on each place! So, in order to try to spread the stories as wide as possible, I try not to spend too much time in any particular spot. For Glen Parva, for that episode, it had to be about the Glen Parva Lady. However, I may well return at some point to highlight aspect of both the Saxon and Medieval village 👍🏻🤞🙂

@@HiddenHistoriesofLeicester the length is good and your presentation is excellent, I know nowadays everything is soundbites as people seem to have short attention spans ( I blame tik tok etc) but ther half hour is great. Again thanks for the excellent work.

It depends which bit of Vaughan Way we’re talking about. During the creation of the underpass in the 1960’s there was no legal requirement for archaeological excavations in the way there is today. So, although some of what was found was recorded and saved, I suspect huge amounts were lost, sadly. Some of the material that was found made it into Jewry Wall Museum (and will hopefully return when the museum reopens!). Having said that, if you want to go and touch actual Roman stuff today, head into the church yard of St. Nicholas’s, where there are numerous bits of Roman pillars lying around. They most likely formed part of the colonnade around the Forum, and when they were dug-up in the 60’s they kind of got dumped there by the builders and have remained ever since! With regards to the recent excavations on the old Stibbe site, these didn’t extend as far as Vaughan Way itself. However, the curvature of the wall discovered closest to the Road, suggests that if any other parts of the theatre survive, that’s where they’ll be. Other items discovered under Stibbe will definitely be making an appearance at Jewry Wall (eventually! 😉) 👍

Similarly, I grew up in the west end of Leicester in the 80’s and 90’s and so my primary schooling was all pre-National Curriculum and then, when the National Curriculum came-in in 1987, was when I went to (Newarke - now Fullhurst) secondary school, and the Civil War didn’t feature in either. So, when I almost stumbled across the 1645 Siege, I knew I just had to tell the story! Really pleased you enjoyed my retelling of it! 😊

I’m please you liked it and feel my videos compliment Mathew’s excellent films as he continues to be an invaluable source for me whenever I’m researching my episodes. 🙂👍

Glad you enjoyed it!

Please do! 😃👍

Well, Peatling will feature again in my next episode - so keep watching! 😉👍🏻

@@HiddenHistoriesofLeicester Yay! if you ever need it, i have the actual floor plans etc of the Peatling Lodge, along with a book of history/about people who lived in Claycoton and Peatling from the mid/late 1800s-1930... and the family trees going back to the mid/late 1600s for some.

As a former teacher, my thoughts on this are as follows. Teachers, since 1991 have had to teach a curriculum prescribed to them by govt (this is a little looser now). With a curriculum dictated by politicians, it was easier for them to reinforce the image of a strong, powerful post WW2/Cold War Britain we were all brought up with by only focussing on the periods that didn’t challenge that narrative. The turmoil and moral ambiguity that surrounds the civil war flies in the face of that narrative and so the policy and curriculum makers avoided the topic (amongst others) in preference of more simplistic, palatable events/periods. Hence why the likes of you and me have these gaps in our education. Here’s hoping my little films can help to plug those gaps, at least a little. 🤞🙂