Archivist Laura Orriss explores the life of the Greville collection’s most notorious cataloguer, the Reverend James Harvey Bloom. Featuring scandal, an ill-received pork pie, and a very small amount of fire.
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Warwickshire County Record Office
CR1886/Cup4/28A - Schedule of deeds in the evidence room at Warwick Castle.
CR1886/892/84 - Expenses incurred in connection with Warwick Castle and its Earls.
CR1886/1076/8 - Letter from Rev. J. H. Bloom to the Countess of Warwick.
CR1886 - Easton Lodge, Essex.
D19/5 - Promise of Sir Fulke Greville to build a stone bridge.
PH143/935 - The Countess of Warwick.
PH239/174 - Grammar School, Long Marston.
PH239/282 - St Mary’s Church, Whitchurch.
PH352/172/56 - Shakespeare’s birthday procession, Stratford-upon-Avon.
OS Sheet 25 inch Warwickshire L.7, 1884.
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Photograph of James Harvey Bloom, 1899.
Imperial War Museum
IWM FLM 2318 - Fireman carries rolled hose, 1940. From: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/it...
WikiCommons
St James’ Church, Castle Acre, Norfolk by John Fielding. From: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
St James’ Church, Castle Acre, Norfolk by Hans A. Rosbach. From: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Entrance to St. John's College and Divinity Schools, Cambridge. From: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
St Helen's Church, Hemsworth by John Slater. From: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
All Saints Church, Springfield, Essex by Robert Edwards. From: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick. From: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick. From: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Easton Lodge, Essex. From: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Weston-super-Mare. From: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Lynmouth, the village from the sea. From: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Pork pies from English cuisine. From: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Homemade pork pie. From: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Huyshe Yeatman-Biggs, Anglican Bishop. From: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Haunts of Shakespeare, No. 2 by Paul Braddon. From: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Books:
Bloom, U. (1945) Rude Forefathers. London: MacDonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.
Bloom, U. (1957) The Elegant Edwardian. London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.
Bloom, U. (1963) Parson Extraordinary. London: Robert Hale Limited.
Bloom, U. (1976) Life is No Fairy Tale. Large print edition. Bath: Firecrest Publishing Limited.
Blunden, M. (1967) The Countess of Warwick. London: Cassell & Company Ltd.