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The Hawkhurst Gang
Kingsmill Leading the Raid at the King’s Customs House. Source: Wikipedia
The Hawkhurst Gang were an eighteenth century group of smugglers, based at Hawkhurst in Kent, and who branched out into fully-fledged banditry. The gang terrorised the south of England from the Isle of Sheppey to Poole in Dorset, unleashing a campaign of extortion, robbery and murder. They seemed immune from the authorities and behaved like an unholy cross between the organised crime of the Mafia and the lawless psychopathy of the American Wild West, extending their murderous activities into piratical raids on towns. The gang infamously broke into the Royal Customs House in Poole in 1747 and relieved it of all the produce and goods they could find there. The gang was led by an unpleasant individual known as Richard Kingsmill, one of three brothers who were the leading lights of the criminal enterprise.
A certain William Sturt, a former soldier, let it be known he was forming an anti-outlaw private militia in Goudhurst in Kent and declared the town a no-go area for the Hawkshead Gang. On this day in 1747, Kingsmill responded by declaring his desperadoes would wipe out the Goudhurst militia and would boil the hearts of four of the townspeople and eat them for his supper for their impudence. Sturt the meantime had trained and armed his volunteers so when the inevitable Hawkshead attack came, he was ready. The gang charged into the town as was their wont, but were met by a concentrated volley of musket fire that devastated the outlaws’ ranks and killed Richard Kingsmill instantly. Three other attackers were slain and many others were wounded or captured. The Hawkshead Gang never recovered and the remaining members were hunted down. The two surviving Kingsmill brothers were eventually hanged at Tyburn. Sturt ended his days as Warden of the Gourdhurst Workhouse.
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Girl help, last time I read a story with this many male characters I ADORED it was Lord of the Rings.
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I relate to Rosamund Hawkhurst because I, too, carry several knives on me wherever I go.
#lady rosamund hawkhurst#just stab me now#rosamund#knives#to be small.and harmless looking in the US#is to require self-defense tools and/or training#in my case that means#minimum two knives and years of strip mall martial arts lol
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It Happened Today in Christian History
July 24th, 1768: Death in Hawkhurst, Kent, of Nathaniel Lardner, author of Credibility of the Gospel History, notable for compiling every known scrap of ancient historical evidence that confirmed the biblical account of Christ and the apostles.
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Steak Thursday at The Eight Belles Hawkhurst Kent
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15 October 2014 | Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall spots her late brother Mark Shand in an old School Photograph at St Ronan's School as part of an away-day to Kent in Hawkhurst, England. Camilla. Duchess of Cornwall's late brother Mark Shand attended the school from 1959 - 1964. The Duchess viewed a new sports facility named in memory of her brother called the 'Shandy-ba' all weather pitch. (c) Chris Jackson - WPA Pool/Getty Images
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Forget teenage fantasy heroines who fall in love at the drop of a glove and insist on complicating things with unnecessary love triangles. Lady Rosamund Hawkhurst is a thirty-something widower who is having none of that nonsense and just wants to survive her diplomatic mission and get home to her children.
‘Just Stab Me Now’ is a novel based on the ‘Fantasy Heroine’ YouTube series by Jill Bearup. It’s a metafiction in which we follow the story of Lady Rosamund Hawkhurst and her author - Caroline Lindley.
Caroline sets out to write a fantasy romance using all the classic tropes of the genre: the hot enemy, enemies to lovers, the hot childhood friend, the love triangle, the vulnerable heroine who constantly needs rescuing… Well, you get the idea.
But Rosamund is a sensible woman with a mind of her own, as are the other characters who populate this world. Caroline soon discovers that when you let your characters act in a manner that’s consistent with who they really are - you end up with a very different story to the cliched romance plot Caroline imgined.
‘Just Stab Me Now’ takes place across three dimensions. Firstly, there is the fantasy story involving Rosamund’s diplomatic mission to stop a war and protect her children. The second realm is Caroline’s life as a part-time author, juggling her writing with an unhappy job in IT. The third realm is the crossover between the fantasy and real world. At first this involves Caroline’s efforts to persuade her characters to act more like the genre tropes she had planned. But over time, Caroline’s relationship with her characters evolves, and they help each other find love and justice in their respective worlds.
Jill Bearup has written a fantasy romance that manages to be heartwarming, sincere and yet also employs her quirky humor to recreate the good natured fun of the original YouTube series. As an added bonus - there’s a well told and enjoyable adventure tale here too, along with the romance.
The only potential stumbling block for readers might be the changes in font and layout used to mark the transition between the fantasy-meta-real world. This took a while for me to get accustomed to, but eventually the layout didn’t really matter as the changes in tone and characters were enough to signal the change in setting.
At a time when I really needed a book to lift my spirits, ‘Just Stab Me Now’ absolutely delivered. If you’re looking for some light hearted fun to brighten up your week, head to your favorite online e-book or physical bok reseller to grab yourself a copy.
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The Mermaid Inn is an extremely old location in England. This building is so old that it dates all the way back to the medieval era of the 1100s, and it's even thought that the street the inn lies on was named after the inn. Across the many years, the Mermaid Inn has seen it's fair share of violence through a French raid during 1377, and then through its unofficial owenership by the brutal Hawkhurst smuggling gang during the 1730s and 1740s.
In more recent years, the inn has had a far less dramatic life, although has drawn the attention of many famous individuals who have stayed here as guests.
With such a long history, the Mermaid Inn has a whole host of spirits said to haunt the location; ranging from silhouettes to full-body apparitions. Maids have been too frightened to clean a room by themselves, an employee has quit because of the activity he had witnessed, and a couple even refused to stay the whole night in their room.
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Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe par Olivier Boyer
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George Goodwin Kilburne The Picnic George est né à Norfolk en 1839, fils aîné de ses parents Goodwin Kilburne et Rebecca, née Button. En plus de sa scolarité à l'école Hawkhurst dans le Kent, il a appris très tôt le métier de graveur sur bois.
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January 2019
Roll up, roll up. It’s a new year which naturally means it’s time for a new alcohol fuelled, calendar based adventure. After very little discussion and even less persuading, the Calendar Crawl lads decided to get the band back together.
For those unfamiliar with the Calendar Crawl, we visit a different pub each month somewhere in England or Scotland and the pub is dictated by a calendar. It’s the second priciest pastime after Warhammer. This year it’s ‘Olde Worlde Inns 2019’. Ooh la la.
The last time we did this was 2016, the year that gave us Brexit, President Trump and a catalogue of untimely celebrity deaths. The travel, camaraderie and beer proved to be the perfect antidote to a batshit crazy year. And with 2019 poised to be an absolute shithouse, it’s only logical we do this again.
The Peacock Inn, Kent
This month the calendar sent us packing on a 398 mile round trip to The Peacock in Goudhurst, Kent. A beautiful old building that was supposedly a hideout in the 1700s for a murderous gang of tea smugglers called the Hawkhurst Gang. A very English racket.
The pub itself was nice and cosy, and the atmosphere was decent. The clientele ranged from young families out for a meal to middle aged blokes enjoying a Ploughman’s after a morning shooting pheasants. The cask ale selection was limited to four fairly standard Shepherd Neame beers, all of which you can get in a supermarket. The staff were friendly and even took the monthly photo for us, in the absence of our fourth Beatle and resident photographer, Ian Evans.
All in all, it was nice but we couldn’t spend a night there. So after a couple of pints, it was off into Royal Tunbridge Wells to see what other fine establishments the Garden of England had to offer. It seemed as good a time as any to see more of this beautiful county before it becomes the Lorry Park of England. Six pubs and 24 pints later, we were taken home by the nicest taxi driver ever (who correctly placed our Black Country accents), to our weird wooden motel cabin to sleep it all off.
All that’s really left to say is ‘Cheers Kent’ and ‘Yorkshire, lock up your daughters’.
It’s good to be back.
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HAWKHURST BRANCH Kent steam train cab ride 1958
Now under the M25
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Elizabethan Lover by Barbara Cartland
3 out of 5 stars.
Rodney Hawkhurst was a privateer who had sailed with Sir Francis Drake. Longing for his own galleon, he goes to sir Harry Gillingham for financing. He meets Gillingham's youngest daughter, tomboy Lizbeth, and is instantly bewitched by her, but falls in love with her elder sister Phillida. Gillingham agrees to provide Hawkhurst with the funds he needs, but requests that he take Francis, Gillingham's son, on the voyage with him. His father believes his son to be weak and, based on the company that the young man is keeping, could be on the verge of committing treason against the Crown.
Unfortunately Francis is almost panicking at the very idea and, threatening to commit suicide, forces Lizbeth to agree to disguise herself as Francis and take his place. When Hawkhurst discovers the switch, he is furious and worried that having her on the ship could destroy his reputation. Being in close quarters on the ship opens Lizbeth's eyes to the reality of seafaring adventuring and how men act when they don't realize a women is present. By the time they return home, Lizbeth is hopelessly in love with the man destined to marry her sister.
Cartland was a remarkably prolific writer who, at her height, would put out a book a month. Her romances could be called formulaic (heroines are ALWAYS virgins, while the heroes are strong, stoic, and various degrees of alpha), especially so from the 1980s until the author's death in 2000 at the age of 99. And an increasing amount of ellipses!
That said, there was something comforting about her romances, the Regencies in particular. You knew what you were getting and the books were short enough to whip through in one day. I particularly believe her best years were from the 1960s through the 1970s. Were the books great? No, not even close. And yet they were addictive. I was so new to romance at the time, which I think helped with my enjoyment as I knew nothing about the tropes common at the time.
This story isn't a Regency. Instead it is set in the Elizabethan era and was first published in 1953. According to the author's dedication, it was Cartland's 50th published book. This wasn't a book that I had read before, although I vaguely remember seeing it in the used book stores. Now there are attitudes and problematic issues throughout the book, although nothing really egregious. At least not that I can recall, although I sped through this. It is a product of its time in regards to the roles of women and reflects somewhat the issues in Elizabethan England regarding the Roman Catholic religion. Plus the whole "license to pirate" thing.
Overall it was an okay read, a mixture of romance, history, and adventure, with dollops of tragedy woven near the end. Actually the romance was a lesser part of the novel than what became usual with her later books. I don't know if this particular story would appeal to a modern reader. To be honest, it didn't do much for me either, although there were moments that kept me reading. I wouldn't recommend this as a first time Cartland reader.
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