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A lot of the current navel-gazing over the validity or otherwise of studying Greek & Roman history neglects to acknowledge an obvious truth about it: the stories are amazing. Why
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For this week's bout of Government-mandated exercise, @sadieholland67 & I are going to visit all the churches mentioned in the nursery rhyme #OrangesAndLemons** The idea for this came from someone
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To the Victoria Embankment, there to take our Government-mandated exercise by following the lines of two waterways, the Bloomsbury Ditch & the #CockAndPye Ditch. These were channels which drained the
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What better way to celebrate my birthday than to walk across a plague-stricken London to Stepney, there to walk one of the city's more obscure lost rivers? - a river
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Wondering if any novel has ever had as profound an influence on how the English-speaking world understand a period of history as A Tale Of Two Cities, and the only
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Today we walk another of London's rivers: the #BeverleyBrook. 'Beferithi', 'Beferlic', 'Bevreli', 'Beverley', it preserves in its name a trace echo of a time when it was home to beavers.
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Why did the Planning Inspectorate recommend tthe Government should turn down the #StonehengeTunnel?Because it threatens "substantial harm" to the Stonehenge landscape, which is - as the Planning Inspectorate reminds the
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To St Albans - “the fairest & best Town in the County of Hertford,” as Edmund Bohun described it in 1688 - there to meet with @Feargal_Sharkey, & walk the
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To Hampshire, there to walk the line of the #Itchen from its source to Winchester, ancient seat of the West Saxon kings. The river threads through a landscape reach in
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Packing for tomorrow's #SussexTour: a journey round the sites & treasures administered by @sussex_society, England's oldest county archaeology society, but now, in its 150th year, facing a COVID meltdown. A
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