Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses

Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.

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Edith Cavell 1865-1915

On 4th December 1865 Edith Cavell was born

In 1897 Edith Cavell [aged 31] was sent to assist with the typhoid outbreak at Maidstone, Kent [Map] for which she subsequently was awarded the Maidstone Medal.

After 1915 Monument to Edith Cavell [aged 49] in Peterborough Cathedral [Map].

On 3rd October 1915 Edith Cavell [aged 49] was arrested for helping allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium.

On 12th October 1915 Edith Cavell [aged 49] was shot by firing squad for having helped two-hundred allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium during the First World War.

On 15th May 1919 a funeral for Edith Cavell was held at Westminster Abbey. Thereafter her coffin was transferred to Norwich Cathedral where she was buried.