Item List (14)

Dartmouth had an unanticipated role in the Mayflower story: as described briefly by William Bradford in his history of the voyage and the colony, the Mayflower and Speedwell had to dock in the town’s harbour after the latter sprung a leak shortly…

Chatham, on the Medway in North Kent, was one of several towns and cities to undertake performances of the Mayflower Pageant written by the Rev. Hugh Parry (which you can learn more about here). Like many early twentieth-century pageants, Parry’s…

William Brewster and William Bradford, according to most historians, worshipped at All Saint’s, Babworth, under the preacher Richard Clifton, until each broke with the established church in the early 17th century. The church dates to around the 15th…

William Henry Bartlett provides some beautiful illustrations of Boston’s church, town hall, and the medieval buildings that adorn the town. He compliments this with an emotional narrative of the Pilgrim’s ill-fated attempt to flee to Holland from…