• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episodes: S07E03: The Fisher King and a bit of S03E03: Judgement Day) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch. • Near to the village Midsomer Priors, on the site of today’s Midsomer Barrow, in Celtic times, during the Iron Age, 3000 years ago, there was a local chieftain: the…
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Not Dead But Sleepeth
• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episode: S13E04: The Silent Land) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch. • Joyce and Cully Barnaby attend a concert by a tenor singer and a pianist. While Joyce listens with enthusiasm and devotion to Ben John’s rendition of “Drink to me only with thine eyes”, Cully is visibly…
Ghost Villages in World War 2
• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episode: S19E01: The Village That Rose From the Dead) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch. • A curtain opens to reveal a room with nine people. All of them are dressed in 1940s style. Almost all of them are sitting at three tables, only the older woman who opened…
Domesday in Midsomer
• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episode: S07E02: Bad Tidings) • Sergeant Daniel Scott has just arrived at his new police station in Causton and is assigned to investigate a murder in Midsomer Mallow. Tom Barnaby and his new sergeant are walking across a meadow where a woman’s body has been found. Daniel Scott is…
The Maltings in Old Amersham – Film Location for Plummer’s Relish & Calder’s Biscuit
Film Location for Midsomer Murders Two factories in Midsomer County have twice been set in the former brewery buildings in picturesque Old Amersham: Plummer’s Relish Factory (S08E07: Sauce for the Goose) Calder’s Biscuits Factory (S16E05: The Killings of Copenhagen) Amersham – A Village in a Chocolate Box The town was first mentioned in an…
The Dissolution of the Monasteries in Midsomer Murders
• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episode: S04E01: Garden of Death, S07E06: The Straw Woman, and S11E07: Talking to the Dead. With a little bit of S20E01: The Ghost of Causton Abbey, S08E03: Orchid Fatalis, and S14E07: A Sacred Trust.) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch. • Tom Barnaby and Ben Jones are in Bow…
ATA – Anything To Anywhere
• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episode: S16E04: The Flying Club. With a bit of S13E02: The Sword of Guillaume, and a tiny bit of S10E01: Dancing with the Dead) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutschauch auf Deutsch. • A murder has occurred at Finchmere airfield. John Barnaby interrogates the Darnley family who own…
A List of Public History in Midsomer
Midsomer County is a county steeped in tradition and nostalgia. There are plenty of historians and other residents who care about history, and there’s also public history. This area of historical studies includes everything that conveys history. They occupy a hybrid position between history and memory, which is ideal for Midsomer Murders. There are monuments,…
Midsomer Murders Series 25 Trailer
Midsomer Murders: New Series Premieres in December – but not (yet) in the UK Fans of Midsomer Murders may have to wait a little longer for new episodes. While ITV has yet to announce a UK broadcast date for Series 24, Series 25 will make its worldwide debut on Acorn TV in the US and…
Midsomer‘s Abbeys are often Waverley Abbey
Waverley Abbey is a film location for: Monks Barton Abbey in Monks Barton Wood („Talking to the Dead“), St Frideswide near Aspern Tallow („The Glitch“), Causton Abbey near Causton („The Ghost of Causton Abbey“). Film Location for Midsomer Murders The ruins of Waverley Abbey, the first Cistercian Abbey in England, have so far been…