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Mersea Island erosion
May 10, 2023

Albion eroding

Read a news report on an incident of coastal erosion and you’ll find the writer — and the featured...

by Kit Ward
Sarah Wrench grave
April 28, 2023

The grave of Sarah Wrench

Here’s an oddity, a grave secured by a mortsafe in the burial ground of the church of St Edmund,...

by Kit Ward
Prydain Film Productions
April 1, 2023

PRESS RELEASE: ANNOUNCING PRYDAIN FILM PRODUCTIONS

As regular readers will know, I’ve been running my own publishing imprint, Prydain Press, for a few years now....

by Kit Ward
Smithfield Market
March 30, 2023

Farewell, Smithfield Market

There has been a meat market at Smithfield for at least 800 years and probably closer to a thousand....

by Kit Ward
February 14, 2023

Caesar on the beach

There is a weather-beaten, lichen-stained monument by the beach at Walmer in Kent, which is easy to miss if...

by Kit Ward
Kings College Chapel
January 30, 2023

Inside of King’s College Chapel

Henry VI, the ‘royal Saint’ in Wordsworth’s poem, wasn’t a great success as a king. He lost almost all...

by Kit Ward
Parthenon Sculptures
December 30, 2022

Marmoreal manœuvres

In March 1817, soon after the Elgin Marbles first went on display in the British Museum, John Keats went...

by Kit Ward
Ironbridge
November 26, 2022

Ironbridge blues

It’s very difficult for historical sites, especially in the English-speaking world, to resist Disneyfication. Ironbridge Gorge is no exception....

by Kit Ward

Exploring Britain's spacetime: places and history, treasure and old iron, rags and bones, strangeness and charm, fancies and goodnights.

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