{"id":18067,"date":"2025-08-29T18:06:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T17:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?page_id=18067"},"modified":"2025-08-29T18:35:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T17:35:50","slug":"novel-historical-notes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/novel-historical-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Novel: notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following are chapter-by-chapter illustrated notes on the historical correctness of my novel <em>The Spyders of Burslem<\/em>.  I have tried to avoid spoilers where possible:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2011\/11\/06\/chapter-one-of-the-spyders-of-burslem-what-is-historically-correct\/\">Chapter One<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2011\/11\/07\/chapter-two-of-the-spyders-of-burslem-what-is-historically-accurate\/\">Chapter Two<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2011\/11\/08\/chapter-three-of-the-spyders-of-burslem-what-is-historically-correct\/\">Chapter Three<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2011\/11\/08\/chapter-four-of-the-spyders-of-burslem-what-is-historically-correct\/\">Chapter Four<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2011\/11\/09\/whats-historically-correct-in-chapter-5-of-the-spyders-of-burslem\/\">Chapter Five<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2011\/11\/11\/what-is-historically-correct-in-chapter-six-of-the-spyders-of-burslem\/\">Chapter Six<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2011\/11\/12\/what-is-historically-correct-in-chapter-seven-of-spyders\/\">Chapter Seven<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2011\/11\/13\/what-is-historically-correct-in-chapter-eight-of-spyders\/\">Chapter Eight<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2011\/11\/15\/chapter-nine-of-spyders-what-is-historically-correct\/\">Chapter Nine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2011\/11\/16\/the-local-history-in-chapters-10-11-of-spyders\/\">Chapters Ten and Eleven<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2011\/11\/17\/final-chapters-of-spyders-what-is-historically-correct\/\">Final chapters (no spoilers)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just a few of the other historical articles on this blog:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2016\/07\/29\/on-tolkien-at-the-butts-near-newcastle-under-lyme-in-september-1915\/\">On Tolkien at the Butts, near Newcastle-under-Lyme<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2018\/03\/31\/j-r-r-tolkien-in-stoke\/\">J.R.R. Tolkien in Stoke<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2011\/11\/10\/h-g-wells-in-stoke\/\">H.G. Wells in Stoke<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2011\/11\/12\/novels-and-fictions-set-in-stoke-on-trent\/\">A survey of the novels and fictions set in Stoke<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2011\/11\/15\/staffordshire-folk-and-their-lore-1896-some-extracts-and-notes\/\">&#8220;Staffordshire folk and their lore&#8221; (1896) &mdash; some extracts and notes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2011\/11\/17\/archaisms-in-north-staffordshire-folklore\/\">Some possible archaic survivals in North Staffordshire folklore<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2011\/11\/21\/folklore-section-from-memorials-of-old-staffordshire-1909\/\">Fairies and Hobthursts around Leek<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2011\/11\/21\/staffordshire-clogg-almanacs\/\">Staffordshire clogg almanacs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following are chapter-by-chapter illustrated notes on the historical correctness of my novel The Spyders of Burslem. I have tried to avoid spoilers where possible: Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapters Ten and Eleven Final chapters (no spoilers) Just a few of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18067","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18067"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18091,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18067\/revisions\/18091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}