Website downtime warning and 2016 conference link Posted 24 January 2016 by Paul HowesI’ve been advised by our IT team that our website will be unavailable for approximately two hours between 6am GMT and 8am on Tuesday, 26th January. Our web-hosting company, Krystal, will be performing an upgrade to server hardware. The outage includes the main Guild site at one-name.org including those parts of the site accessed through [Click to continue…]
The Guild’s Latest Membership Landmark Posted 5 January 2016 by Clifford KemballThe Guild of One-Name Studies has reached another membership milestone. In 2015 the Guild of One-Name Studies broke all its previous memberships records by recruiting some 418 new members with a further 15 previous Guild members re-joining the Guild during the year. A total of 433 new members. This milestone follows a very successful year [Click to continue…]
A sainted study Posted 30 November 2015 by Paul HowesHow many One-Name Studies can claim a real saint as part of their number? There are the Saint, St. John and St. Paul One-Name Studies, but they are not what I mean. It’s 30th November, St Andrew’s Day, the patron saint of Scotland. But St Andrew is not whereof we speak either. On this day [Click to continue…]
November 11 – Shall we remember? Posted 11 November 2015 by Departed Member“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; “Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. “At the going down of the sun and in the morning“We will remember them.” (Laurence Binyon, “For the Fallen”) In a corner of Wiltshire, England close by to Stonehenge and the busy A303 trunk [Click to continue…]
“Remember, Remember, the fifth of November” Posted 5 November 2015 by Paul Howes“Remember, remember! The fifth of November, The Gunpowder treason and plot; I know of no reason Why the Gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot” I well remember that poem from my childhood, reciting it by a bonfire on which an effigy of a man named Guy was burning. It marks a notable event in British [Click to continue…]