In St. Mary’s church in Sandwich, Kent, is a simple ledger that is showing the signs of three centuries of dust and deterioration under people’s feet. Demonstrating the importance of the historical record to verify difficult-to-read dates incised into the stones,
A Change of Date (Ledger of the Month – December 2016)
The seemingly confused year in the date of the Pilkington slab at All Saints’ Theddlethorpe, Lincolnshire, can be explained by the change from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian in 1582, not formally adopted in England until 1752. The Gregorian Calendar new