How did you do? I hope that you realise that there’ll be at least two more castle themed challenges – next week’s History Jar Challenge will be Welsh castles.
Ivanhoe is associated with Conisburgh Castle created by Sir Walter Scott.
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Peveril Castle in Castleton, Derbyshire, is part of the title of another Sir Walter Scott Novel.
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Ian Flemming the creator of 007 described Dover Castle as “the wonderful cardboard castle” in Moonraker.
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Brave Dame Mary, a novel by Louisa Hawtry featured Mary Bankes defence of Corfe Castle for the Royalists against the Parliamentarians.
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Men of Harlech was sung by the defenders of Rorkes Drift in the film Zulu which starred Michael Caine.
And just to finish – Victor Hugo said that “if we don’t build castles in the air we don’t build anything on the ground” – Fictional Castles
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