Richard / Robin Thorpe
@jobbinghistorian.bsky.social
Haphazard gardener, jobbing historian and writer of arrant whimsy. Currently obsession. The Flight P convoy disaster and how to lose LCTs.
First SYC articles. I'm using this as a way of processing the material as I go along; poof read and check it. The bloody maps needed redoing too many times.
I am struggling to avoid the rabbit holes, especially as I know some of what is to come.
jobbinghistorian.blogspot.com/2025/12/mani...
I am struggling to avoid the rabbit holes, especially as I know some of what is to come.
jobbinghistorian.blogspot.com/2025/12/mani...
‘Manifesting their Zeal’ : The Raising of the Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry
‘Manifesting their Zeal’ The Raising of the Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry [1] George Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl Gower Sutherland Fir...
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December 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
First SYC articles. I'm using this as a way of processing the material as I go along; poof read and check it. The bloody maps needed redoing too many times.
I am struggling to avoid the rabbit holes, especially as I know some of what is to come.
jobbinghistorian.blogspot.com/2025/12/mani...
I am struggling to avoid the rabbit holes, especially as I know some of what is to come.
jobbinghistorian.blogspot.com/2025/12/mani...
jobbinghistorian.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
What happens when you go looking for one of the founders of the Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry, who then goes missing and reappears banged up for debt.
What happens when you go looking for one of the founders of the Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry, who then goes missing and reappears banged up for debt.
The haphazard life of Sir John Peshall, solider, debtor and possible baronet
John Pearsall was a cleric and sometime schoolmaster from Guildford. At some point about 1770 decided he was heir to the Peshall Baronetcy. ...
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December 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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What happens when you go looking for one of the founders of the Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry, who then goes missing and reappears banged up for debt.
What happens when you go looking for one of the founders of the Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry, who then goes missing and reappears banged up for debt.
For your mild amusement.
Five Historic things you never thought you needed to know. #8
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Five Historic things you never thought you needed to know. #8
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Five Historic things you never thought you needed to know. #8
Five Historic things you never thought you needed to know. #8 The Private Navy of Richard Whitworth. Richard Whitworth was a Staffordshir...
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December 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
For your mild amusement.
Five Historic things you never thought you needed to know. #8
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Five Historic things you never thought you needed to know. #8
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And now, proof read, what happens to a Landing Craft when its engines fail and it missed Cornwall and hits Spain.
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The Spanish Odyssey of LCT 332: A Flight P Postscript
The Spanish Odyssey of LCT 332 – a Flight P Postscript On 18 th November the British Naval Attaché in Madrid wired the Admiralty. ‘...
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December 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
And now, proof read, what happens to a Landing Craft when its engines fail and it missed Cornwall and hits Spain.
jobbinghistorian.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
jobbinghistorian.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
At last - the greatest British loss of Landing Craft [Tanks] in any mission [other than D-Day].
The Spanish Odyssey of LCT 332 is being proof read and will be available soon
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The Spanish Odyssey of LCT 332 is being proof read and will be available soon
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The Flight P Convoy Disaster – the largest loss of Landing Craft [Tanks] before D-Day
The Flight P Convoy Disaster – the largest loss of LCTs before D-Day LCT 354 on Newford Rocks, St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly The Convoy Depa...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
At last - the greatest British loss of Landing Craft [Tanks] in any mission [other than D-Day].
The Spanish Odyssey of LCT 332 is being proof read and will be available soon
jobbinghistorian.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The Spanish Odyssey of LCT 332 is being proof read and will be available soon
jobbinghistorian.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
Nonsense, utter nonsense harrringtonsclub.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
The awfulness of modern me time
Be gentle with Kirkhouse. He has been in a bit of grump since he returned from, what can best be described as, a Spa Day and he has not reco...
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October 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Nonsense, utter nonsense harrringtonsclub.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
More arrant nonsense harrringtonsclub.blogspot.com/2025/09/pitt...
Pitton's End: The Independence of Sunk Island and the well meaning deception of Wives
Some fellows just have that knack of making you feel that, even if you are a bit of a duffer, you are at the centre of their confidence; you...
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September 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
More arrant nonsense harrringtonsclub.blogspot.com/2025/09/pitt...
More arrant nonsense More arrant nonsense harrringtonsclub.blogspot.com/2025/09/i-wa...
I was Franco's double
I suspect it is a universal certainty that youth is full of beginnings, endings come only in the form of the pause between the next page. ...
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September 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
More arrant nonsense More arrant nonsense harrringtonsclub.blogspot.com/2025/09/i-wa...
Some nonsense for those in need harrringtonsclub.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-...
How Garden Centres can be employed to combat Calvinism
One of the things that I enjoy about being 'up in town', is just how friendly most people are. You can strike up a conversation in the certa...
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September 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Some nonsense for those in need harrringtonsclub.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-...
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This is a fantastic database of Dutch West India Company employees in the seventeenth century (1635-1664) - 168 entries for people from Hamburg alone 👇
De gegevens van duizenden WIC-opvarenden zijn nu online te doorzoeken #wicopvarenden wic-opvarenden.dekok.xyz/browse
August 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This is a fantastic database of Dutch West India Company employees in the seventeenth century (1635-1664) - 168 entries for people from Hamburg alone 👇
Daaaarlings! Constable Pictures are seeking talented artists to appear in the smash hit of 1936 - Long May He Reign Over Us’ - a tribute to our new king. Edward VIII. Apply on set at #kentwellhall #KTTA
August 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Daaaarlings! Constable Pictures are seeking talented artists to appear in the smash hit of 1936 - Long May He Reign Over Us’ - a tribute to our new king. Edward VIII. Apply on set at #kentwellhall #KTTA
Coming to Kentwell Through The Ages this weekend - the totally accurate and historically valid making of the 1936 tribute to our new king, Edward VIII. #KTTA #kentwellhall
August 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Coming to Kentwell Through The Ages this weekend - the totally accurate and historically valid making of the 1936 tribute to our new king, Edward VIII. #KTTA #kentwellhall
Kind people will remember the Play for Voices wot I wrote for school during lockdown and a lot of very generous people indulged me and we ended up with a three parter on the weekend of the Blitz and Invasion scare of 7/8 September 1940. It is now on Youtube
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvL7...
The Weekend the Germans didn't invade Part 1 Midnight 7th September 1940 to 4.45pm.
YouTube video by Richard Robin Thorpe
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April 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Kind people will remember the Play for Voices wot I wrote for school during lockdown and a lot of very generous people indulged me and we ended up with a three parter on the weekend of the Blitz and Invasion scare of 7/8 September 1940. It is now on Youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvL7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvL7...
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I think a lot about soundscapes that we’ve lost and how they were interpreted by contemporary listeners. Looms make a very distinctive thump that at the most fundamental level meant that the weaver had enough raw materials to make cloth. In some parts of North America it might take several years
Everyone else is doing pictures of #iron already worked for #ironworkthursday so here is some in progress.
The ‘dink! dink! dink!’ sound in the distance as the #blacksmith hammers away is one of the most evocative parts of our #earlymodern soundscape.
#forge #metalwork #crafts #ancienttechnology
The ‘dink! dink! dink!’ sound in the distance as the #blacksmith hammers away is one of the most evocative parts of our #earlymodern soundscape.
#forge #metalwork #crafts #ancienttechnology
February 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I think a lot about soundscapes that we’ve lost and how they were interpreted by contemporary listeners. Looms make a very distinctive thump that at the most fundamental level meant that the weaver had enough raw materials to make cloth. In some parts of North America it might take several years
jobbinghistorian.blogspot.com/2025/02/reme...
I am running down rabbit holes. This will be a series of short things I look up when I spot a thing.
I am running down rabbit holes. This will be a series of short things I look up when I spot a thing.
Remembered in the landscape: Oliver Locker-Lampson
Oliver Locker-Lampson The younger son of the poet Frederick Locker, and his second wife, Hannah Jane Lampson,who had taken the name Locke...
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February 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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I am running down rabbit holes. This will be a series of short things I look up when I spot a thing.
I am running down rabbit holes. This will be a series of short things I look up when I spot a thing.
Should you have an interest in frost fairs and people dying of tissick you best life has just arrived. jobbinghistorian.blogspot.com/2025/02/deat...
Death in a time of Ice: Mortality in London during the Frost Fair of 1715/16.
Death in an Age of Ice On the 24th November 1715 a severe frost marked the beginning of almost 11 weeks of sub zero temperatures until aro...
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February 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Should you have an interest in frost fairs and people dying of tissick you best life has just arrived. jobbinghistorian.blogspot.com/2025/02/deat...
Tudor letter quote of the day 'Is very sick of a great lax '
Who amongst us has not felt a great lax, especially in January.
[Sir Richard Bulkeley to Thomas Cromwell, Dec 1536]
Who amongst us has not felt a great lax, especially in January.
[Sir Richard Bulkeley to Thomas Cromwell, Dec 1536]
January 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Tudor letter quote of the day 'Is very sick of a great lax '
Who amongst us has not felt a great lax, especially in January.
[Sir Richard Bulkeley to Thomas Cromwell, Dec 1536]
Who amongst us has not felt a great lax, especially in January.
[Sir Richard Bulkeley to Thomas Cromwell, Dec 1536]
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SO how does this Blue Sky thing work then?
in 2025 I have already been dragon hunting, visited outer space, visited the 16th century with @emmamordue.bsky.social saw my favourite band for the last time :0( and exhibted at BETT at the Excel. Busy Busy.
in 2025 I have already been dragon hunting, visited outer space, visited the 16th century with @emmamordue.bsky.social saw my favourite band for the last time :0( and exhibted at BETT at the Excel. Busy Busy.
January 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
SO how does this Blue Sky thing work then?
in 2025 I have already been dragon hunting, visited outer space, visited the 16th century with @emmamordue.bsky.social saw my favourite band for the last time :0( and exhibted at BETT at the Excel. Busy Busy.
in 2025 I have already been dragon hunting, visited outer space, visited the 16th century with @emmamordue.bsky.social saw my favourite band for the last time :0( and exhibted at BETT at the Excel. Busy Busy.
A very ‘don’t ee go out on the moor young master’ vibe to this morning.
January 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
A very ‘don’t ee go out on the moor young master’ vibe to this morning.
I have been down a rabbit hole and written a sensible thing about the causes of the lost of Landing Craft [Tanks] in the Second World War. I invite you to read it and pass it on to any who would benefit from the knowledge.
jobbinghistorian.blogspot.com/2025/01/land...
jobbinghistorian.blogspot.com/2025/01/land...
Landing Craft [Tanks] and how to break them: A misusers guide.
Landing Craft [Tanks] and how to break them: A misusers guide. Photo Malindine (Lt) War Office official photographer - H 19057 IWM capti...
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January 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I have been down a rabbit hole and written a sensible thing about the causes of the lost of Landing Craft [Tanks] in the Second World War. I invite you to read it and pass it on to any who would benefit from the knowledge.
jobbinghistorian.blogspot.com/2025/01/land...
jobbinghistorian.blogspot.com/2025/01/land...