One the great things about filming for the Mayflower DVD project was being able to see some of the places associated with passengers who sailed to America in 1620. Passenger John Howland lived in Fenstanton in Huntingdonshire. Passengers Elizabeth Tilly, her parents, plus Humility Cooper and Henry Samson all...
The role of the London Guilds in the Mayflower Story
The London Guilds played a pivotal role in the Mayflower story and the emergence of England as a great trading nation. Whilst the Guilds themselves did not fund the Mayflower voyage their members did. One of the Mayflower sponsors was really committed to the project as he was a...
The Making of Mayflower 400 DVD – Webinar
This webinar was streamed on the 11th November 2020, and presented by Adrian Moss (Managing Director of and Research Lead / Director & Producer of the Mayflower 400 DVD), and introduced by Peter O’Sullivan (Former member of Mayflower 400 programme team and resident of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire). It was specifically...
The critical role of Oxbridge in the Mayflower story
(photo – Dr Alice Soulieux-Evans: Historian in Residence – Christian Heritage) We interviewed Alice to learn more about the key role that Oxford and Cambridge Universities played in theological education and debate leading up to and through the Reformation. Initially monasteries and religious orders managed education from schools through...