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
As those familiar with the story of the life of William Bradford may already know, he lived in Leiden, Netherlands
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
I’m not aware of definitive evidence of Bradford ever being in York, but it does have a Pilgrim connection as
The Haven, the tidal river near Boston, down which the Pilgrims attempted to flee to Holland The approximate location from
Only a small section of Scrooby Manor has survived rebuilt as a farmhouse – at even that has been debated
An aerial view of Scrooby village St Wilfrid’s church in Scrooby. This was the home church of William Brewster, but there is