"The Last Chronicle of Barset The Last Chronicle of Barset is a novel by Anthony Trollope, published in 1867. It is the final book of a series of six, often referred to collectively as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. ""The Last Chronicle of Barset"" concerns an indigent but learned clergyman, the Reverend Josiah Crawley, the perpetual curate of Hogglestock, who stands accused of stealing a cheque. The novel is notable for the non-resolution of a plot continued from the previous novel in the series, ""The Small House at Allington"", involving Lily Dale and Johnny Eames. Its main storyline features the courtship"
"BBC television mini-series titled ""The Warden"" (1951), which was broadcast live and apparently never recorded. The BBC adapted ""The Warden"" and its sequel, ""Barchester Towers"", into the miniseries ""The Barchester Chronicles"" (1982). The first two of the seven one-hour episodes are drawn from ""The Warden"" and the rest from the much longer ""Barchester Towers."" George Orwell called the novel ""probably the most successful"" of Trollope's ""clerical series"", and ""one of his best works"" but noted that Trollope, though a shrewd critic, was no reformer. ""A time-honoured abuse, he held, is frequently less bad than its remedy. He builds Archdeacon Grantly"
"in ""Framley Parsonage"", the objecting parent finally invites the young lady into the family; this new connection also inspires the Dean and Archdeacon to find a new, more prosperous, post for Grace's impoverished father. Through death or marriage, this final volume manages to tie up more than one thread from the beginning of the series. One subplot deals with the death of Mrs. Proudie, the virago wife of the Bishop of Barchester, and his subsequent grief and collapse. Mrs. Proudie, upon her arrival in Barchester in ""Barchester Towers"", had increased the tribulations of the gentle Mr. Harding, title character of"
"best-loved works are set in the imaginary west country county of Barsetshire, including ""The Warden"" (1855) and ""Barchester Towers"" (1857). Trollope's novels portray the lives of the landowning and professional classes of early Victorian England. George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans (1819–80) was a major novelist of the mid-Victorian period. Her works, especially ""Middlemarch"" 1871-2), are important examples of literary realism, and are admired for their combination of high Victorian literary detail, with an intellectual breadth that removes them from the narrow geographic confines they often depict, that has led to comparisons with Tolstoy. George Meredith (1828–1909) is best remembered for"
"information was thought to have been known about the castle. Other books include an historical novel, ""The Secret of The Talisman"", and local histories, ""The History of Barbourne"", of which he was co-author and ""Heroes and Villains of Worcestershire"". His journalism career began at the weekly Kent Messenger. He also worked as Supplements Editor on the Birmingham Evening Mail and as editor on the Orpington Times and the Hereford Observer, and did a stint as a sub-editor on The Independent. Terry Wardle Terry Wardle (born 17 April 1944) is a British writer born in Hereford. Has also been a soldier,"
"Requiescat. In Anthony Trollope's 1855 novel, ""The Warden"", the fictional archdeacon of Barchester Cathedral, Dr. Grantly, keeps in his private study ""the busts of the greatest among the great: Chrysostom, St. Augustine, Thomas à Becket, Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop Laud, and Dr. Philpotts"" (chap. XII). Bishop Phillpotts appears as a pompous bishop of Exeter, in Edward Marston's historical novel set in 1857, ""The Stationmaster's Farewell"". This is no.9 of the Railway Detective series featuring Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Lemming. Henry Phillpotts Henry Phillpotts (6 May 177818 September 1869), often called ""Henry of Exeter"", was the Anglican Bishop of Exeter from 1830"
"any staff and for any member or the public that they call upon for assistance. The historic role of the Keeper was captured in a 1959 British Pathé film, which showed them dressed in bowler hats and tweeds being inspected by the Warden (a former Lieutenant Colonel) before going about their daily routine of tackling summer fires and challenging golfers who were not in appropriate attire. The Common is home to The Wombles, a series of characters created by Elizabeth Beresford, who later got their own TV show and musical group. It is also featured in the novel ""The Wimbledon"
"fact all of the regular cast reprised their roles from ""Hark at Barker"". Barker wrote all the scripts under the pseudonym Jonathan Cobbald. . He liked to refer to the show as ""Fawlty Towers mark one"" as it appeared on television three years before that other hotel bound sitcom. Four episodes of the sitcom were recently performed on stage by Nottingham University's New Theatre. For many years it was thought that the series had been entirely lost after the tapes were wiped by the BBC. However, the first episode of ""His Lordship Entertains"", 'The Food Inspector', was recovered in 2009."
"(in Trollope's own words) ""a little bit of England which I have myself created"". In ""Doctor Thorne"" Trollope describes how the county, formerly represented by a single parliamentary constituency, was split into two constituencies, the more rural East Barsetshire, which includes Barchester, and the more commercial West Barsetshire, by the Reform Act 1832. The borough of Silverbridge, according to the Palliser novels, also elects a Member of Parliament. The novel ""Barchester Pilgrimage"" (1935), and some of the episodes in ""Let Dons Delight"" (1939), both by Ronald Knox, refer to Barsetshire and its inhabitants. Barsetshire was also used as the setting"
"the ""Barsetshire"" novels of Anthony Trollope, who attended Winchester College; ""The Warden"" (1855) is said to be based on a scandal at the Hospital of St Cross. A fictionalised Winchester appears as ""Wintoncester"" in Hardy's ""Tess of the d'Urbervilles"" (1891). Some of the action in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's ""The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"" (1892) takes place in the city—the Black Swan hotel mentioned in the story formerly stood at the end of Southgate St and is still acknowledged by a figure on the outside of the building. In Charles Kingsley's romantic history ""Hereward the Wake"" (1866), Hereward smashes"
"is now used for communal activities. The local newspaper is the ""Wetherby News"" whilst the regional newspaper is the ""Yorkshire Evening Post"". The local BBC radio station is BBC Radio Leeds, whilst there are many other independent local radio stations in the area. There are cinemas nearby in Leeds, Wetherby and Castleford. The theme tune to ""The Archers"" is called ""Barwick Green"". It was written by Yorkshire composer Arthur Wood in 1924, as a ""maypole dance"" in his suite ""My native heath"". The other items in this suite are ""Ilkley Tarn"", ""Bolton Abbey"" and ""Knaresborough Status"". Widge, the protagonist in"
"written by Barker, and began as a pastiche of costume dramas about a governess called Henrietta Beckett, played by Madeline Smith. Barker played a sex-starved aristocrat called Sir Geoffrey, and Corbett played his son Edward, but further into the serial, the Ronnies portrayed a wide variety of other characters, including pick-pockets and royals. At the end it is revealed to be just a dream when she wakes up in Hampton Wick Cottage Hospital after having an accident. Piggy Malone (Barker) and Charley Farley (Corbett) are private detectives who investigate a mystery about a murdered family, featuring Sue Lloyd as Blanche"
"Haynes International Motor Museum in Sparkford. Somerset has 11,500 listed buildings; 523 Scheduled Monuments; 192 conservation areas; 41 parks and gardens including those at Barrington Court, Holnicote Estate, Prior Park Landscape Garden and Tintinhull Garden; 36 English Heritage sites; and 19 National Trust sites including Clevedon Court, Fyne Court, Montacute House and Tyntesfield; as well as Stembridge Tower Mill, the last remaining thatched windmill in England. Other historic houses in the county which have remained in private ownership or used for other purposes include Halswell House and Marston Bigot. Among the county's most distinctive architectural assets are the Somerset Towers—more"
"such as Writtle. The ""Framley Examiner"" originally began as a website, started around 2001. Its success then spawned a book ""The Framley Examiner"" () described on the cover as ""the book of the website of the newspaper"". A second book, ""Historic Framley"" (), was later published, produced in association with Framley Museum. The writers are Robin Halstead, Jason Hazeley, Alex Morris and Joel Morris. The four are regular contributors to ""Viz"" magazine. The book ""Bollocks to Alton Towers"" (), published in April 2005, by the same authors, is a non-fiction book unrelated to The Framley Examiner. The website was last"
"on VHS during the 1990s. It has been released on DVD format and is included on the Laurence Olivier Presents Collection and The Laurence Olivier Centenary Collection. The Enigma is a 1980 television adaptation of the novelette by John Fowles, produced as part of BBC2's playhouse series. It was also directed by Robert Knights. The Ebony Tower The Ebony Tower (1974) by John Fowles is a collection of five novellas and short stories with interlacing themes, each built around a medieval myth: ""The Ebony Tower,"" ""Eliduc"", ""Poor Koko"", ""The Enigma"" and ""The Cloud"". Henry Breasley is an elderly painter whose"
"Poisoner"" by Nigel Williams, the climax of which occurs in the windmill. The TARDIS briefly stops there at the end of the ""Doctor Who"" serial ""The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve"", whereupon Dodo Chaplet enters the TARDIS, believing it to be a police box, and becomes a companion for the next five serials. Iris Wildthyme – a character from the BBC Doctor Who book series – travels in a TARDIS which is disguised as the Number 22 bus to Putney Common. The Common is one setting of H. G. Wells' ""The War of the Worlds"". Parkside, running alongside Wimbledon Common"
"works are set in the imaginary county of Barsetshire, including ""The Warden"" (1855) and ""Barchester Towers"" (1857). He also wrote perceptive novels on political, social, and gender issues, and on other topical matters, including ""The Way with Live Now"" (1875). Trollope's novels portrayed the lives of the landowning and professional classes of early Victorian England. George Eliot's (Mary Ann Evans (1819–80) first novel ""Adam Bede"" was published in 1859. Her works, especially ""Middlemarch"" 1871–72), are important examples of literary realism, and are admired for their combination of high Victorian literary detail combined with an intellectual breadth that removes them from"
"in Becontree Avenue. It is the only surviving of the five manor houses of Dagenham. Dating back to the 13th century it is sited in parkland and is partially surrounded by a moat. Valence House is the borough's local history museum, displaying an impressive collection of artifacts and archives that tell the story of the lives of the people of Barking and Dagenham. The collection also includes portraits, family papers and other mementoes of the Fanshawe family, who occupied Parsloes Manor, since demolished, from the sixteenth century. The Fanshawe collection is ""one of the best collections of gentry portraits in"
"Barber of Fleet Street""), ""The Mysteries of London"" (inspired by the French serial ""The Mysteries of Paris""), and ""Varney the Vampire"" (1845–47). ""Varney"" is the tale of the vampire Sir Francis Varney, and introduced many of the tropes present in vampire fiction recognizable to modern audiences — it was the first story to refer to sharpened teeth for a vampire. Highwaymen were popular heroes; ""Black Bess or the Knight of the Road"", outlining the largely imaginary exploits of real-life English highwayman Dick Turpin, continued for 254 episodes. Other serials were thinly-disguised plagiarisms of popular contemporary literature. The publisher Edward Lloyd,"
"films, notably: ""First Knight"", ""Stardust"", the Harry Potter series, ""Son of Rambow"" and more recently ""Robin Hood"" starring Russell Crowe. TV programmes filmed here include the Netflix biographical drama ""The Crown"", ""Marchlands"", ""Midsomer Murders"", ""Lewis"", ""Cranford"", and a Jamie Oliver advertisement for Sainsburys. There is a vigorous community life with over 25 different clubs and societies. Local residents are kept updated on events in Little Gaddesden through the Gaddesden Diary, published seasonally. The Parish News also provides a further summary. Little Gaddesden has many period properties, of note: Ashridge House, (designed by Sir James Wyattville along with gardens and grounds"
"(book and television series) and the adventures of Marmalade Atkins (television series and numerous books). He also wrote the stories ""Dark Towers"" and ""Badger Girl"" for BBC TV's ""Look and Read"" programmes for schools audiences. 2008 saw the release of his adaptations of the 1999 novel ""Affinity"" by Sarah Waters, Evelyn Waugh's ""Brideshead Revisited"" (a film), Charles Dickens' ""Little Dorrit"" (a BBC series). ""Little Dorrit"" won seven of eleven Emmy nominations and earned Davies an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries. Adaptations of ""Dombey and Son"", one of Dickens' lesser-read works and Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels were scrapped by"
"Haverfordwest. There are museums and art galleries in several locations in the county, including Scolton Manor, Narberth, Tenby, Milford Haven and Fishguard; in Fishguard, the long ""Last Invasion Tapestry"", commemorating the Battle of Fishguard in 1797, is on display. Pembrokeshire's coastal landscape and wealth of historic buildings has made it a popular location choice for film and television, including ""Moby Dick"" at Fishguard, and the final two ""Harry Potter"" films at Freshwater West. Others include (click on ""show"" to see the full list): There are seven local newspapers based in Pembrokeshire: the ""Western Telegraph"" (the largest in Pembrokeshire), ""The Milford"
"fields and market gardens between the then emerging Berkeley and Hanover Squares. Mallett sold Bourdon House in 2007. Since 2003 Mallett has also been operating from a New York Gallery at 929 Madison Avenue and East 74th Street. Mallett completely renovated the New York Brownstone building and now offers stock from the London showrooms. Robert Adam, Matthew Boulton, George Bullock, Sir William Chambers, John Cheere, Thomas Chippendale, John Cobb, Gerard Dagly, Gillows of Lancaster, Christopher Furlohg, Benjamin Goodison, John Gumley, Giles Grendy, William Hallett, Gawen Hamilton, George Hepplewhite, Henry Holland, Thomas Hope, Ince and Mayhew, Georges Jacob, Jackson and Graham,"
"person), and ""Ring for Jeeves"" (which features Jeeves but not Bertie Wooster and is written in the third person). The short stories are set primarily in London, where Bertie Wooster has a flat and is a member of the raucous Drones Club, or in New York City, though some short stories are set around various stately homes in the English countryside. The novels all take place at or near an English country house, most commonly Brinkley Court (in four novels) and Totleigh Towers (in two novels). The setting is primariy an idealised version of England during the interwar period, though"
"to be the modern name of Thrace. The final combat of the romance hero Guy of Warwick against the giant Colbrand takes place outside the walls of Winchester. The Late Middle Ages author Sir Thomas Malory identified Winchester as the mythical home of Camelot and King Arthur in Le Morte d'Arthur, his collection of medieval legends about the Arthurian myths. (Malory's editor William Caxton disputed this, insisting that Camelot must be in Wales). A scene in ""Henry Esmond"" (1852) by William Makepeace Thackeray is set in the choir of Winchester cathedral. Winchester is in part the model for ""Barchester"" in"
"night lights, lamp shades, chocolate bars, gelatin pudding kits, posters, games, shirts, badges (buttons), cloth patches, and other items. The revival of the series in the late 1990s brought with it another wave of merchandise which included lunch boxes, umbrellas, flannels (face cloths), hot water bottle covers, slippers, a ""Steiff"" doll, and a set of postage stamps for ""Alderney"", a ""Channel Island"" that served as the name for one of the Wombles and the home of Beresford until her death. More recently, the Wombles were part of a set of UK postage stamps honouring classic British children's TV programs. In"
"the ward dating from 1904 and is named after Piccadilly in London, Piccadilly is the only settlement with a Birmingham (B) postcode. Foul End is an area to the south of Hurley, Foul End Consists of several farms. Hurley Common is the smallest settlement in the ward and is just a simple hamlet with a pub. Hurley and Wood End Hurley and Wood End is a ward within North Warwickshire, it is named after the villages of Hurley and Wood End, the ward also contains the villages of Piccadilly, Hurley Common and Foul End. The ward is covered by Kingsbury"
"topics, such as illegitimate pregnancy) and domestic life among the working and lower middle classes. ""Folly Corner"" (1899) tells of a young woman who moves from London to live on an ancestral Sussex farm and becomes involved in a bigamous relationship. ""Maternity of Harriott Wicken"" (1899) is a murder story that ends with the death of a mother and her child from measles. ""Men of Marlowe's"" (1900) is a collection of Bohemian short stories set in Gray's Inn, London. ""The Third Floor"" (1901) follows another young girl living alone in London, who becomes a victim of sexual abuse. As Dudeney's"
"house, which is reputedly haunted. The Baron's Court Theatre is also located in basement of ""The Curtains Up"" bar and restaurant. The Carnival Store is a longstanding fancy dress and costume shop in Hammersmith Road and family owned for the past 40 years. Avonmore Road has become home to Kensington Village, built in the 1880s. Whiteleys Furniture Depositories, laundry and stables in Westbourne Grove was London's first department store. The high-ceilinged Warwick Building was used as a depository for Whiteleys-sourced furnishings (grand pianos, chaise longues, oriental room dividers, mahogany wardrobes) for the use of those resident in the colonies. Kensington"
"with the removal of their misunderstanding Mr Arabin and Eleanor become engaged. The old Dean of the Cathedral having died, Mr Slope campaigns to become Dean but Mr Harding is offered the preferment, with a beautiful house in the Close and fifteen acres of garden. Mr Harding considers himself unsuitable and with the help of the archdeacon, arranges that Mr Arabin be made Dean. With the Stanhopes' return to Italy, life in the Cathedral Close returns to normal and Mr Harding continues his life of gentleness and music. ""The Warden"" and ""Barchester Towers"" were filmed by the BBC as ""The"
"UK editions bear the series title, ""The Warrior Chronicles"". The series is also known as ""The Saxon Chronicles"" on US editions. In the autumn of 2015, a series of television programs based on the first two novels and using the title of the first novel – ""The Last Kingdom"" – has led book sellers to link the novels to the television series by referring to them as ""The Last Kingdom"" novels. The author renamed the series The Last Kingdom, per a news notice at his website. Bernard Cornwell mentioned in the historical notes at the end of ""The Lords of"
"by Ben Jonson; N-Town ""Assumption of the Virgin""; Towneley ""Last Judgment"" 1973 ""A Re-enactment of the Coronation and the Mass of Henry V""; York ""Baptism"", ""Temptation""; N-Town ""Women Taken in Adultery, Colifizacio, Scourging, Crucifixion""; ""The Franklin's Tale, The Washtub"" 1974 ""Fulgens and Lucrece""; Towneley ""The Talents"", ""The Resurrection""; ""Officium in Nocte Resurrectionis"", ""Music at the Time of Petrarch""; ""Pierre Pathelin""; Towneley ""Secunda Pastorum"", York ""Herod Plays"" 1975 ""Magnyfycence"" by John Skelton; ""The Sport of the Friar, The Sport of the Drunken Monk"" by King Mahendra; ""Arden of Faversham"" 1976 ""Sampson Dux Fortissime""; Bassingham ""Mummer's Play""; ""The Dance of Death"" by"
"to his autobiography, he conceived the plot of ""The Warden"", which became the first of the six Barsetshire novels. His postal work delayed the beginning of writing for a year; the novel was published in 1855, in an edition of 1,000 copies, with Trollope receiving half of the profits: £9 8s. 8d. in 1855, and £10 15s. 1d. in 1856. Although the profits were not large, the book received notices in the press, and brought Trollope to the attention of the novel-reading public. He immediately began work on ""Barchester Towers"", the second Barsetshire novel; upon its publication in 1857, he"