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Histories of Northamptonshire

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  • Langar Painting

    Painting of Langar

    A commissioned painting of Langar (Free Community Kitchen) by SCCYC SMN by Artistic Seva, Slough, demonstrating the value of Community & Equality. The painting showing communities from all faiths and castes cooking together, eating side by side on the floor and washing up together. Chosen as part of the extended exhibtion Beyond the 100 in 2025/26.

    1500 Medieval to Tudor

  • Face of Silver-Gilt seal matrix (rhs) alongside mould of seal when pressed into wax © NMAG

    Medieval Seal Matrix

    A medieval silver-gilt seal matrix. Used to create wax impressions on documents, this is a rare example in the name of a medieval woman.

    Medieval 1200 - 1350 Medieval to Tudor

  • Fossil brachiopod Kallirhynchia sharpi. © NMAG

    Jurassic Fossil Kallirhynchia sharpi

    168 million years ago, Northamptonshire lay beneath a warm sea teeming with marine life, including this fossil brachiopod Kallirhynchia sharpi.

    168 million years ago Geologic to Prehistoric

  • Fossil screw pine - Pandanocarpum ooliticum (Carruthers) © NMAG

    Screw Pine Fossil

    This screw pine fossil is a rare type specimen. Parts of Jurassic Northamptonshire were submerged in a shallow warm sea and tropical plants thrived on the nearby land.

    168 million years ago Geologic to Prehistoric

  • Treaty of Edinburgh signed at Northampton Castle in 1328. © National Records of Scotland

    Treaty of Edinburgh - Northampton

    In 1328, England's parliament met at Northampton Castle; where they agreed this peace treaty officially marking the end of the First War of Scottish Independence.

    Medieval 1328 Medieval to Tudor