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Thursday 3rd September (all day event)
Come and celebrate the 375th anniversary of the Battle of Worcester with local author Tony Bryan and his book “The Tailor Spy”
In the annals of Worcester’s industrial development, cloth-making was the dominant trade in the city for around 500 years. This gave rise to the Clothiers Company of Worcester, a guild founded in 1390 to protect the interests of weavers and fullers, which still exists today as a charity.
To be a clothier was to be a person of certain status and it’s no surprise the company has found itself intertwined in some of the city’s most famous events.
They come no more famous than the 1651 Battle of Worcester and true to form the Clothiers had a finger in that pie. There was the story of one of the local tailors who acted as a spy inside the city for Oliver Cromwell’s forces, passing out information the Roundheads found useful, and this particular angle is explored in Tony’s novel “The Tailor Spy and The Little Maid”.
His novel is based on the three days before the Battle of Worcester, and relates the activities and the characters of a tailor with real historical origins and a young maid, with both
trying to survive as the city is invaded and occupied by the Scottish Army of Charles II.
The real-life spy was named William Guise and was hanged outside the Golden Cross Inn in Broad Street, Worcester.
The novel graphically describes the battle and its impact on the citizens of Worcester and the soldiers.
Because most of the Scots never saw Scotland again, they were either taken into captivity, slaughtered or transported overseas.
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