Mike has written a blog post about his experience earlier this week helping out the Education Team at Basing House with their family activity sessions.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this topic, Mike!
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Public Engagement – Dig Pits, Trench Tours and Object Handling
During this season’s dig, part of the aim is to be involved in the public engagement aspect of Basing House.
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Taylor’s letters reflect the dilemmas of slaveholding colonial planters with British identities who had, nevertheless, become disillusioned about their place within the empire. By 1806, Taylor was recommending his nephew, and principal heir, Sir Simon Brissett Taylor, who was by then aged twenty-two, to explore the possibility of moving the Taylor family and their investments to the United States.
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