James Chilton is not one of the most famous passengers of the Mayflower. His name is not used alongside that…
While researching for my Bradford biography, I just came across a short poem about the Pilgrims. Seeing that it was…
Image by Jeff Nelson under CC BY-SA 2.0 I recently came across a snippet from a letter by Bradford that…
One of Amsterdam's famous canals Nieuwe Kerk, on Amsterdam's central square, was built in the 1300s. Bradford would have certainly…
We explore the closing days of the Civil War, when the victorious president Abraham Lincoln was struck down by the…
Painting of a Dutch Woman from this period by Rembrandt Two years ago I wrote a short article on the…
This is the start of a series of post from a second research trip to Europe. This time we flew…
As those familiar with the story of the life of William Bradford may already know, he lived in Leiden, Netherlands…
The story of the largest surrender during the entire Civil War - after the famous surrender at Appomattox, Joseph E.…
One of the most common errors that I have encountered in researching William Bradford and his magnum opus, Of Plymouth…
The Humber is the tidal estuary from which Pilgrims (very likely including Bradford) made their escape to Holland. The traditional…
A reader of the blog recently wrote in with a question, asking what best edition of Of Plymouth Plantation they…