Research Trips

The skeleton. Where and when I searched for Milady.

timber frame medieval house in Berry Museum, Bourges, France

An overview of Milady’s times and places:

1600 - Anne de Breuil (Breuil - Templemars)

1616 - Comtesse de la Fère (Olivier/Athos’s wife) - (Berry)

1618 - Charles Backson - (Guildford)

1619 - Madame Charlotte Backson - ‘widow’ - (London)

1623 - Lady Clarik - (Norton, near Sheffield)

1625 - Lady de Winter - inherited title - (Paris)

floor, Palais Jacques Coeur, Bourges

An overview of my times and places 2017 - 2018 (and 2023)

2017

Friday 2nd June

Barcelona to Paris

HOTEL FOURCY - 6 rue de Fourcy - 75004 PARIS - Metro stop Saint-Paul (line 1)

Gabriel - Dumas at Parthenon and Egise Saint Leu-Saint Gilles en la rue Saint Denis

Saturday 3rd June

Paris - Bourges

Paris Gare d'Austerlitz

Airbnb Bourges Centre

Monday 5th June

Bourges to Calais

Hotel Particulier Richelieu

Tuesday 6th June

Ferry Calais - Dover - Train Dover - Guildford

(Hampton Court Palace, Windsor Palace, Artington)

Monday 12th June

Guildford - Chichester

Tent (visiting Barry and Rowan)

Tuesday 13th June

Chichester - Portsmouth

(Buckingham’s house was for sale)

Wed 14th June

Portsmouth - Bath

St Christopher's Inn, Bath

Friday 16th June

Bath - London

Safestay Holland Park Hostel

(Globe, Holland House, Westminster Abbey, Covent Garden)

Monday 19th June

London - Windermere - Coniston

YHA Coniston Coppermine

Friday 23rd June

Windermere - Sheffield

Sunday 25th June

Sheffield - Manchester

(Bishop’s House in Meersbrook Park)

Monday 26th June

Manchester - Amsterdam

First of July

Rembrandt’s House

Sunday 2nd July

Amsterdam - London City

DLR - London City - Stratford International

Stratford International - Dover

Castle House

Dover Castle

Monday 3rd July

Ferry Dover - Calais

Calais Fréthun - Hesdin

WORK AWAY

Pas de Calais

Donna and Nik - St George, near Hesdin

Lille/Arras

WORKAWAY

Percy, near Villedieu-les-Poêles, Normandy

Roseann, Mike and Olivier (sorry, Ollie, already knew Athos was called Olivier!)

Abbaye de Hambye

(Visited Mont St Michel, Caen/Bayeux, and Sark)

Mont Saint Michele, Normandy

WORKAWAY

Dordogne - Berjerac

Arianne

Animals in 17th century farmhouse

(Escaped back to Paris, Reims and BREUIL!)

WORKAWAY

Champagne

Marie and Victor - Baye St Aube

Troyes

Friday 15th Sept - Mon 25th Sept

Charleville-Mézières International Puppet Festival

Blabla car to

Lille

hostel

To Paris Via Lille/Bethune/Armentieres

HOTEL FAUCONNIER - 11 rue du Fauconnier - 75004 PARIS - Metro stop Saint-Paul (line 1)

HOTEL MAUBUISSON - 12 rue des Barres - 75004 PARIS - Metro stop Hotel de ville (line 1)

22nd December

Canterbury

The epicentre of the Church of England for Christmas?

Could Milady have visited George Abbott there?

Might she have joined a pilgrimage?

Had she read the Canterbury Tales?

29th December

Cambridge

Fitzwilliam Museum

Spanish piece of eight

30th Dec - January 2018

(with son Felix)

Felix Lachlan Millar 2018

Cambridge - London

George Abbott killed a gamekeeper with a cross bow!

V&A - the Ware bed - mentioned in Twelfth Night

The Globe

National Portrait Gallery

the attic of Renaissance Château du Pailly, Champagne

2018

4th April

Paris

Dumas Castle - Monte Cristo!

Meung!

Sunday 15th April

Arundel Castle

(visiting Brighton for teaching purposes)

1st June

From Oviedo to Oxford

Christchurch/Ashmolean

3rd June

Bristol

5th June

WORKAWAY

near Colyton/Honiton, Devon

Tessa and Daisy

Oak, hazel and hedgerows

Lyme Regis

Green scythe fair - willow basket weave

WORKAWAY

Wiltshire

17th century gamekeeper’s cottage

Lucy and Olli

Train from Honiton - Salisbury - Westbury - Swindon

Oxford

Bodlian library

29th June

Work in Brighton with day trips to:

Lewes - Anne of Cleeves House

Hatfield House

Banqueting House

Tower of London

!!!!Queens House!!!!!!

14th August

Petworth House Gardens - Molyneux Globe - 1592

24th August

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

Shakespeare’s life and habitat

28th August

Kortrijk, Belgium

Flax museum

Beguinage

!!!! TEMPLEMARS !!!!

August - 20th September

ANTWERP

WORKAWAY

kitchen hand/cleaner in Simone’s Kitchen

Reuben’s House

The Rockox/Snijders House

Museum Plantin-Moretus

Musée Saint-Remi, Reims

2019

4th August

Totnes

Dartington Hall

17th August

LONDON

Museum of London

6th September

LONDON

Charlton House

Kenwood House

2023

7th June

Wadesbridge

Molesworth Arms 16th Century pub

8th June

Birmingham

The Old Crown Hotel (Grade II Listed Tudor building)

13th June

Dore

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet (part of Sheffield Museums and … closed)

14th June

Bolsover Castle

15th June

Chesterfield

Hardwick Hall

16th June

Nottingham

castle closed

18th June

Sedgebrook

Belvoir Castle

(pronounced Beaver)