LATEST NEWS NOVEMBER2025
Welcome to the landing page. Contact me at nigelj.hinton1@gmail.com if you would like to arrange for a private walking tour of Shrewsbury or an historic talk for your group.
Currently I am directing work on the Drapers` Research Project 2025/26, working with fellow Draper, Dr Cathryn Talbot, chair of Newport and District History Society. Together with a team of researchers and using team sharing technology, we hope to continue and complete the work started by Irene Rope and continued by Lilly Chitty in the years 1900- 1924. This was published in The Shropshire Historical and Archaeological Society`s Transactions.
They managed to get about halfway through, about 200 pages, of transcribing and translating of the 400 pages of script , known as The Earliest book of the Shrewsbury Drapers Company. SA Ref 1931/1/9/3. This has been digitised by The Index Bindery in Ludford.
Due to unforeseen circumstances the project is paused until end of April
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Whilst there is no funding for The Darwin Festival 2026 a number of events with a Darwin theme are being organised by past participants. These include www.shrewsburyhistorica.co.uk
Old News and other TV and radio visits to Drapers Hall and St Mary`s Church and Scrooges grave. https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2024/11/26/watch-historians-sadness-after-destruction-of-important-visitor-attraction-scrooge-gravestone
Watch BBC TV Bargain Hunt When Charlie Ross met me in Drapers Hall in Shrewsbury https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012wr
ln 2019, the Sheep to Sugar Project was launched by Liz Millman in Drapers` Hall, Shrewsbury. For launch of Sheep to Sugar see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkTll9AdSKQ
OLD News See Drapers Hall when ITV News visited
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Thank you for stopping by. This website hosts most of my research projects so you can read a selection of my articles, talks, and find details of my books and links to other websites.
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My books are available from all good local and national bookshops.
Mytton of Halston , was published in 2023 order from your local bookshop.
Other books available include
Wool, War and Health – You Caxton, 2020
At work in Shrewsbury – Amberley 2018
Shrewsbury Drapers Company 1462 – 2017 – You Caxton in 2017
Baa Baa Blodwyn – 2011
Silhouette – 2009
Historical Hostelries written with David Trumper – 2005
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These days I describe myself as a local historian, author, speaker and guide based in the beautiful town of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK.
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