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Eyam

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Eyam is an English village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district that lies within the Peak District National Park. [1]

88 relations: Ancient Rome, Anglo-Saxon art, Anglo-Saxons, Anna Seward, Archdeacon of Newark, Beau (guitarist), Berlie Doherty, Bishop of Bath and Wells, Bishop of Sodor and Man, Cavalier, Civil parish, Dative case, Derby plague of 1665, Derbyshire, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire Dales (UK Parliament constituency), Domesday Book, Don Taylor (English director and playwright), Ebenezer Rhodes, Elegies to Lessons Learnt, English Heritage, English Place-Name Society, Eyam Hall, Eyam Museum, Flea, Fluorite, Francis Leggatt Chantrey, Geraldine Brooks (writer), Gravedigger, Great Plague of London, Harry Bagshaw, Harry Epworth Allen, Howard Books, I Like Trains, Images of England, Infectivity, Jacobean architecture, Jill Paton Walsh, John Holland (poet), Joseph Hatton, Kin selection, Laing Art Gallery, Leeds, Lichfield, Listed building, M. I. McAllister, Malcolm Rose, Marjorie Bowen, Mary Howitt, Mechanics' Institutes, ..., Mercia, Naïve art, National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, Newport Museum, Office for National Statistics, Old English, Parish church, Paul McCusker, PBS, Peak District, Peter Cunningham (priest), Plague (disease), Puritans, Quarantine, Rector (ecclesiastical), Richard Furness, Riding Lights Theatre Company, Robert Eden, 3rd Baron Auckland, Robert Murray Gilchrist, Romanticism, Roy Bailey (folk singer), Scheduled monument, Secrets of the Dead, Sickness behavior, Smelting, St Lawrence's Church, Eyam, Stocks, Sundial, The Roses of Eyam, Thomas Seward, University of Nottingham, Wakes week, Well dressing, William Mompesson, William Newton (poet), Working class, Year of Wonders, Young adult fiction. Expand index (38 more) »

Ancient Rome

In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.

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Anglo-Saxon art

Anglo-Saxon art covers art produced within the Anglo-Saxon period of English history, beginning with the Migration period style that the Anglo-Saxons brought with them from the continent in the 5th century, and ending in 1066 with the Norman Conquest of a large Anglo-Saxon nation-state whose sophisticated art was influential in much of northern Europe.

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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century.

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Anna Seward

Anna Seward (12 December 1742often wrongly given as 174725 March 1809) was a long-eighteenth-century English Romantic poet, often called the Swan of Lichfield.

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Archdeacon of Newark

The Archdeacon of Newark is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham.

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Beau (guitarist)

Beau, born Christopher John Trevor Midgley, is a British singer-songwriter and twelve-string guitar player, who first became known in the late 1960s through his recordings for John Peel's Dandelion Records label.

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Berlie Doherty

Berlie Doherty (born Beryl Hollingsworth; 6 November 1943) is an English novelist, poet, playwright and screenwriter.

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Bishop of Bath and Wells

The Bishop of Bath and Wells heads the Church of England Diocese of Bath and Wells in the Province of Canterbury in England.

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Bishop of Sodor and Man

The Bishop of Sodor and Man is the Ordinary of the Diocese of Sodor and Man in the Province of York in the Church of England.

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Cavalier

The term Cavalier was first used by Roundheads as a term of abuse for the wealthier Royalist supporters of King Charles I and his son Charles II of England during the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration (1642 – c. 1679).

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority.

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Dative case

The dative case (abbreviated, or sometimes when it is a core argument) is a grammatical case used in some languages to indicate, among other uses, the noun to which something is given, as in "Maria Jacobī potum dedit", Latin for "Maria gave Jacob a drink".

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Derby plague of 1665

During the Great Plague of 1665 the area of Derby, England, fell victim to the bubonic plague epidemic, with many deaths.

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Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England.

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Derbyshire Dales

Derbyshire Dales or is a local government district in Derbyshire, England.

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Derbyshire Dales (UK Parliament constituency)

Derbyshire Dales or is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Patrick McLoughlin of the Conservative Party since being created for the 2010 general election.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (or; Latin: Liber de Wintonia "Book of Winchester") is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror.

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Don Taylor (English director and playwright)

Donald Victor Taylor (30 June 1936 – 11 November 2003; usually credited as Don Taylor) was an English writer, director and producer, active across theatre, radio and television for over forty years.

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Ebenezer Rhodes

Ebenezer Rhodes (1762–1839) was an English topographer, publisher, master cutler and artist.

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Elegies to Lessons Learnt

Elegies to Lessons Learnt is I Like Trains' first studio album, and was released on 1 October 2007.

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English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a registered charity that manages the National Heritage Collection.

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English Place-Name Society

The English Place-Name Society (EPNS) is a learned society concerned with toponomastics and the toponymy of England, in other words, the study of place-names (toponyms).

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Eyam Hall

Eyam Hall is a Jacobean-style manor house in Eyam in Derbyshire.

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Eyam Museum

Eyam Museum is a local museum in the village of Eyam, located in the Peak District, Derbyshire, England.

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Flea

Fleas are small flightless insects that form the order Siphonaptera.

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Fluorite

Not to be confused with Fluoride. Fluorite (also called fluorspar) is the mineral form of calcium fluoride, CaF2.

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Francis Leggatt Chantrey

Sir Francis Leg(g)att Chantrey (7 April 1781 – 25 November 1841) was an English sculptor.

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Geraldine Brooks (writer)

Geraldine Brooks (born 14 September 1955) is an Australian American journalist and novelist whose 2005 novel, March, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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Gravedigger

A gravedigger is a cemetery worker who is responsible for digging a grave prior to a funeral service.

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Great Plague of London

The Great Plague, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England.

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Harry Bagshaw

Harry Bagshaw, christened Henry Bagshaw, (1 September 1859 – 31 January 1927) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1887 and 1902 and was also a cricket umpire.

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Harry Epworth Allen

Harry Epworth Allen (27 November 1894 – 25 March 1958) was an English painter.

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Howard Books

Howard Books (formerly Julia MacRae Books) is a Christian publishing company founded in 1969 and previously based in West Monroe, Louisiana, but which relocated to Brentwood, Tennessee, (south of Nashville) in September 2009.

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I Like Trains

I Like Trains (previously styled as iLiKETRAiNS) is an English alternative/post-rock band, formed in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Images of England

Images of England is an online photographic record of all the listed buildings in England at the date of February 2002.

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Infectivity

In epidemiology, infectivity is the ability of a pathogen to establish an infection.

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Jacobean architecture

The Jacobean style is the second phase of Renaissance architecture in England, following the Elizabethan style.

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Jill Paton Walsh

Jill Paton Walsh, CBE, FRSL (born 29 April 1937) is an English novelist and children's writer.

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John Holland (poet)

John Holland (14 March 1794 – 28 December 1872) was an English poet and newspaper editor.

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Joseph Hatton

Joseph Paul Christopher Hatton (3 February 1837 (baptised Andover 22 March 1837) – 31 July 1907) was a novelist and journalist.

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Kin selection

Kin selection is the evolutionary strategy that favours the reproductive success of an organism's relatives, even at a cost to the organism's own survival and reproduction.

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Laing Art Gallery

The Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, is located on New Bridge Street.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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Lichfield

Lichfield is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire, England.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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M. I. McAllister

Margaret I. McAllister is an English author of children's books, born in 1956.

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Malcolm Rose

Malcolm Rose (born 1953) is a British young adult author.

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Marjorie Bowen

Marjorie Bowen (pseudonym of Mrs Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long née Campbell) (1 November 1885 – 23 December 1952) was a British author who wrote historical romances, supernatural horror stories, popular history and biography.

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Mary Howitt

Mary Howitt (12 March 1799 – 30 January 1888) was an English poet, and author of the famous poem The Spider and the Fly.

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Mechanics' Institutes

Mechanics' Institutes are educational establishments, originally formed to provide adult education, particularly in technical subjects, to working men.

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Mercia

Mercia (Miercna rīce) was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy.

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Naïve art

Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing).

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National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty

The National Trust, formally the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, is a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the largest membership organisation in the United Kingdom.

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Newport Museum

Newport Museum and Art Gallery (known locally as the City Museum) is a museum, library and art gallery in the city of Newport, south Wales.

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Office for National Statistics

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the UK Parliament.

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Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Parish church

A parish church (or parochial church) in Christianity is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish.

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Paul McCusker

Paul McCusker is an American writer and producer.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Peak District

The Peak District is an upland area in England at the southern end of the Pennines.

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Peter Cunningham (priest)

Reverend Peter Cunningham was probably born in 1747 and died in Chertsey on 24 June 1805.

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Plague (disease)

Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

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Puritans

The Puritans were English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to "purify" the Church of England from its "Catholic" practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed.

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Quarantine

A quarantine is used to separate and restrict the movement of people; it is a 'a restraint upon the activities or communication of persons or the transport of goods designed to prevent the spread of disease or pests', for a certain period of time.

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Rector (ecclesiastical)

A rector is, in an ecclesiastical sense, a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations.

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Richard Furness

Richard Furness (2 August 1791 – 13 December 1857) was a British poet.

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Riding Lights Theatre Company

Riding Lights is a British independent theatre company which has toured shows nationally and internationally since 1977.

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Robert Eden, 3rd Baron Auckland

Robert John Eden, 3rd Baron Auckland (10 July 1799 – 25 April 1870), styled The Honourable Robert Eden from birth until 1849, was a British clergyman.

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Robert Murray Gilchrist

Robert Murray Gilchrist (6 January 1867 – 1917) was an English novelist and author of regional interest books about the Peak District.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

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Roy Bailey (folk singer)

Roy Bailey (born 20 October 1935, London), is an English socialist folk singer.

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Scheduled monument

In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a "nationally important" archaeological site or historic building, given protection against unauthorised change.

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Secrets of the Dead

Secrets of the Dead, produced by Thirteen/WNET New York, is an ongoing PBS television series which began in 2000.

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Sickness behavior

Ancher, Michael, "The Sick Girl", 1882, Statens Museum for Kunst. Sickness behavior is a coordinated set of adaptive behavioral changes that develop in ill individuals during the course of an infection.

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Smelting

Smelting is a process of applying heat to ore in order to melt out a base metal.

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St Lawrence's Church, Eyam

St Lawrence’s Church, Eyam is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Eyam, Derbyshire.

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Stocks

Stocks are restraining devices that were used as a form of corporal punishment and public humiliation.

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Sundial

A sundial is a device that tells the time of day when there is sunlight by the apparent position of the Sun in the sky.

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The Roses of Eyam

The Roses of Eyam is a historical drama by Don Taylor about The Great Plague that swept Britain in 1665/66.

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Thomas Seward

Thomas Seward (1708 – 4 March 1790) was an English Anglican clergyman, author and editor who was part of the Lichfield intellectual circle that included Samuel Johnson, Erasmus Darwin and his own daughter Anna Seward, amongst others.

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University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom.

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Wakes week

The wakes week is a holiday period in parts of England and Scotland.

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Well dressing

Well dressing, also known as well flowering, is a tradition practised in some parts of rural England in which wells, springs and other water sources are decorated with designs created from flower petals.

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William Mompesson

William Mompesson (1639–1709) was a historically important clergyman, whose decisive action when his Derbyshire parish, Eyam, became infected with the plague in the 17th century averted more widespread catastrophe.

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William Newton (poet)

William Newton (1750–1830), a labouring class poet often referred to as 'the Peak Minstrel', was born near Abney, in the parish of Eyam, Derbyshire, on 28 November 1750.

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Working class

The working class (also labouring class) are the people employed for wages, especially in manual-labour occupations and industrial work.

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Year of Wonders

Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague is a 2001 international bestselling historical fiction novel by Geraldine Brooks.

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Young adult fiction

Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction published for readers in their youth.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyam

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