As well as playing a lot of cricket, Midsomer has been very successful in chess, Formula 1 and boxing. The famous boxing match of 1860 is a topic for another time: here we look at chess and F1 first. • (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episodes: S06E01: A Talent of Life, S08E02: Dead in the Water,…
Category: Chapters
Public Footpaths
•(Caution: Contains spoilers for Episodes: S02E03: Dead Man’s Eleven, S09E02: Dead Letters, S13E02: The Sword of Guillaume, and S14E04: The Oblong Murders)Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch.• The Barnaby family are looking for a new place to live in Fletcher’s Cross and have a bite to eat in the Queen’s Arms, outside, in…
Witch-Hunting in Midsomer County
• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episodes: S05E02: A Worm in a Bud, and S07E06: The Straw Woman) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch. • Witch-hunting is not a medieval invention. It was not until the early modern period, i.e. the 15th and 16th centuries, that the persecution and condemnation of women who did not…
The History of Midsomer Parva and Midsomer Worthy
An overview of the many historical events in Midsomer Parva and Midsomer Worthy. •(Caution: Contains spoilers for many episodes: S01E01 Written In Blood, S02E02: Strangler’s Wood, S05E02: A Worm in a Bud, S05E04: Murder on St Malley’s Day, S07E01: The Green Man, S07E06: The Straw Woman, S11E01 Shot at Dawn, S12E03: Secrets and Spies, S13E01:…
Doom Paintings
• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episode: S16E02: Let us prey) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch. • Towards the end of the 11th century, people began to worry – again, it must be said – that the world was coming to an end and that the Last Judgement was imminent. Scholars kept calculating new…
Saint Frideswide
•(Caution: Contains spoilers for Episode: S12E04: The Glitch)Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch. • The Midsomer Cycling Club from Aspern Tallow – adults and young people – often go cycling, today along the old pilgrim route to an old church ruin. On the top of a hill they take a short rest. Down…
William Tyndale
•(Caution: Contains spoilers for Episodes: S11E05: The Magician’s Nephew)Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch.• Tom Barnaby, wearing a black coat and a burgundy shawl, enters a church in search of Aloysius Wilmington, and discovers him kneeling in front of the communion pew in the nave, sorting. Aloysius Wilmington is also wearing a burgundy…
‘Involved in the Gunpowder Plot.”‘
• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episodes: S08E04: Bantling Boy, and S15E02: Murder of Innocence) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch. • Welcome to Bantling Hall, located in the picturesque Buckinghamshire… no, sorry: Dorney Court. A stunning Tudor manor that has been listed on the National Heritage List since 23 September 1955. With a rich…
Jane Austen & Baroness Orczy in Midsomer County
•(Caution: Contains spoilers for episodes: S10E07: They Seek Him Here, & S19E05: Death by Persuasion)Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch.• The idyllic landscape of Midsomer County is well known. No wonder Jane Austen and Baroness Emma Orczy, two famous writers, are said to have stayed here. Or is that just a story?
The Civil War, pt. 1
•(Caution: Contains spoilers for Episodes: S03E04: Beyond the Grave, S06E04: A Tale of two Hamlets, S08E04: Bantling Boy, and S11E02: Blood Wedding)Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch. • After the Gunpowder Plot, religious tensions in England continued to escalate against the Catholics. Among them were the Fitzroys of Bledlow Village, who took over…