A Shepherd's Stone

A Shepherd's Stone

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The great rise and fall of the smock-frock
How the most common agricultural labourer’s garment disappeared
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A tale of two Christmases
Victorian yuletide in Great Rollright
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May Day, Great Rollright, 1907
Spring festivals – from Beltane to Empire Day
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The plight of William Fletcher (1818–86)
The dwindling fortunes of a tenant farmer
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100 ways to spell Great Rollright
What’s in the spelling of a name?
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Photographic enterprise
Chipping Norton photographer: Frank Packer (1877–1967)
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The shepherd’s stroll
A guided walk around Great Rollright
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The mystery of the missing son
The fate of John Withers, the shepherd’s eldest son
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Lamb-tail pie and other farmhouse fare
Traditional Oxfordshire country cooking
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The Great Rollright historian: Reginald Welbury Jeffery (1877–1956)
From Oxford fellowship to 'incapacitation'
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Lambing the 19th-century way
Spring time in Great Rollright
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What happened to all the women?
Retrieving the lost lives of Great Rollright
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7 best shepherd paintings
Over a thousand years of pastoral scenes
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The quiet tragedy of Richard Berry (1849–1918)
Great Rollright farmer and Guardian of the Poor
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A Shepherd's Stone
A Shepherd's Stone
Local history musings from Great Rollright in Oxfordshire, inspired by the headstone of the shepherd Richard Widdows, who died aged 104 in 1910.
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