Stuart Millson
@StuartMillson
Editor, reviewer, Royalist, real ale, rail, classical & greenbelt backer; 1940/23 June 2016, our finest hours. England, Wales, Scotland, Ulster, Eire ~ united.
East Malling church in Kent is the resting place of Col. Matthew Thomlinson of the Parliamentary army — escaping retribution following the Restoration, because the King respected him as a soldier. @EastMallingWI @mallingmatters @ColonelAndy @DerekTurner1964
In Owthorpe lie Lucy Hutchinson (Order and Disorder, 1679) and her husband, regicide Colonel John Hutchinson @literarybritain In St Margaret’s church the John-Lucy memorial is opposite the (later and rather larger…) memorial to Richard Norton who entertained 4 kings of England
It's the First Night of the #BBCProms 🎉 Celebrate 100 years of BBC Radio 4's Shipping Forecast with us at our Proms performance in the Ulster Hall on 8 August, featuring the world premiere of 'Yonderland' by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and his group LYR. Book tickets:…
Seascape, Tenby, late July Saturday afternoon. @tenbybrewingco @VisitPembs @visitwales
Looking forward to seeing @RegiaAnglorum and @RBKheritage this weekend at the fantastic Anglo-Saxon festival in Canbury Gardens, Kingston-upon-Thames, which celebrates King Athelstan, first king of all the English, who was crowned king in #Kingston in 925. #birthofengland
Kingston History Centre will be closed on Saturday 26th July due to the Athel's Town Tournament taking place this weekend at Canbury Gardens. Be transported back to Kingston in the year 925 with living history displays and a Saxon fayre! Why not take some photos and enter our…
74 years ago, in July 1951, the Three Towns Pageant reenacted the crowning of King Athelstan in 925 (Image reference K1-0968). If you’re interested in Kingston’s Saxon history, the Athel’s Town Tournament, featuring a Saxon Fayre, reenactments, and more, is taking place on the…
Interesting programme from 35 years ago, now on BBC Four; a summer journey along the Kennet and Avon canal. Presented by Angela Rippon (who speaks beautifully) the show belongs to a different age. @YesterdaysBrit1 @BBCFOUR4 @CPREBerkshire @KennetAndAvon @DerekTurner1964
BBC Wales reports this evening that fewer than 25% of Welsh Govt staff attend their offices. And these are the people sending diktat out to farmers, who work seven days a week and get up at 5am! @WelshGovernment @PrifWeinidog @christopherhope @NFUCymru @NoFarmsNoFoods
"Historic County Flags Day: A Celebration of Identity and Heritage" nationalworld.com/read-this/hist…
Nice to hear a politician talking about ‘the cultural life of our nation’. @AndrewRosindell @GBNEWS @christopherhope @Telegraph @Daily_Express @KemiBadenoch @Keir_Starmer @YesterdaysBrit1 @DurhamWASP @TradBritGroup @HistoricCounty #traditionalcounties
Well done to @AndrewRosindell who has put down an Early Day Motion in Parliament celebrating Historic County Flags Day 2025 and recognising that our counties "continue to play an important part in the history, geography and cultural life of the nation" edm.parliament.uk/early-day-moti…
Meanwhile, far from the madding crowd and our tottering state, we can at least take pleasure in Nature’s realm… @CPRESurrey @Love_plants @CPREBerkshire @CarolKlein @LBFlyawayhome @DerekTurner1964
Tough question from Sky to Essex police: "Do you accept that your officers have given a higher level of protection to one set of protestors than another?" & "Will you not apologise for what happened and if not will you resign?" @EssexPoliceUK @KemiBadenoch @SkyNews @ukhomeoffice
BBC News website, full with news of death of heavy metal star, yet not one mention (that I could see) of the passing of conductor, Sir Roger Norrington. Why? @PetrocTrelawny @CliveMyrieBBC @BBCNews @bbcproms @BBCRadio3 @andrewCDmcg @HilaryConductor @ArcheryPromos @LPOrchestra
Love the scene in the old 1944 Ealing film, set in wartime Wales, where the character, David, looks at a similar scene and says: ‘I shall lift up mine eyes unto the hills…’ @BFI @TalkingPicsTV @ColonelAndy
‘Lilies’ Garden Flowers, 1960 Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton
I used to find this picture - and the whole concept - of a flooded valley quite haunting. Actually, I still do Artist: Ronald Lampitt (Our Land in the Making, 1966)
The powers-that-be don’t seem to understand that people want working farms & home-agriculture, real industry & steelworks — not wind-farms, imports & coffee shops. 🏴 @GBNEWS @BBCWales @NoFarmsNoFoods @AbolishAssembly @reformparty_uk @WelshConserv @RhunapIorwerth @PrifWeinidog
Farmers waiting to learn their fate following planned changes to Inheritance Tax could be given further detail today in what is described as ‘legislation day'. Speaking at a @NFUCymru reception to mark the start of the Royal Welsh Show, president Aled Jones said it was vital the…
Music of William Lawes on the radio this morn — Lawes a court-composer to King Charles the Martyr. The composer fought & died for the Royalist side in the anti-Republican Civil War, Charles l greatly mourning the loss ‘of our father of music’. @ColonelAndy @RSStGeorge @BBCRadio3
The harvest seems to be a month earlier this year, at least in Cymru. Combines in the July fields & tractors pounding the roads. The harvest picture below — I don’t think the Poppy is quite right. More of a June flower. @NFUCymru @NoFarmsNoFoods @DerekTurner1964
Harvest Mouse (1949) Artist: Septimus Scott
I must say, I did not take to the excitable, Saturday-night chat-show style of the Radio 3 presentation from the First Night of the Proms. What’s happened to the old, straight, informed commentary for which the network was famous? @PetrocTrelawny @BBCRadio3 #bbcproms2025
Soapwort, used in mediaeval times, now flowering in the garden. @DerekTurner1964 @CarolKlein @mediaevalbaebes @ColonelAndy
Vaughan Williams, Sancta Civitas, Proms tonight. First Night, 1984: RVW A London Symphony; Elgar, Sea Pictures; Walton, Belshazzar’s Feast. Great night, cond. by Sir John Pritchard. (Rpt, maybe?) @BBCRadio3 @PetrocTrelawny @bbcproms @BBCSO @RVWtweets @RVWSociety @ArcheryPromos