Since I announced several years ago that I was writing a new biography of William Bradford, I’ve had quite a
Bradford lived in Leiden during a truly formative period of his life, and we spent several days here. It has
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
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
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
The Haven, the tidal river near Boston, down which the Pilgrims attempted to flee to Holland The approximate location from
The chapel of St. Helena’s in Austerfield, Bradford’s hometown This ancient carving of a dragon sits above the church door