The idea of a female dovecote keeper opened a new world for me. I shouldn’t have been surprise that most dovekeepers were girls and women, after all, women are often the ones on farms today who care for chickens. My problem was that I assumed Anglo Saxon women prior to 1066AD were chattel, in the […]
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Dovecotes: When The Facts Don’t Match My Story
What do you do when historical facts don’t match your story? This past week I went back and reviewed my research on pigeons, and found something I had glossed over before. Dovecotes, the sturdy round buildings that housed pigeons during the middle ages, came to England from Normandy after 1066. Well, darn. I had dovecotes […]