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HM Stanley grave
January 31, 2019

The extraordinary Stanley

On a Sunday walk in the Surrey countryside, I came into the village of Pirbright and wandered into the...

by Kit Ward
National Centre for Popular Music
December 23, 2018

A tale of lottery-funded hubris

The Bilbao Guggenheim has a lot to answer for. Its remarkable, undeniable success generated two dubious notions. The first...

by Kit Ward
Alfoxton House
November 30, 2018

Under suspicion: some writers and artists in the English countryside

The English countryside was once a refuge for writers and artists of slender means. The life was peaceful, the...

by Kit Ward
Abandoned bicycle
October 25, 2018

The bicycle’s final journey, to the centre of the Earth

It was a gentle devouring to begin with. The abandoned bicycle was settled into the bed of leaves and...

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Osbornes witch swimming
September 30, 2018

A Hertfordshire witch-swimming

One day in 1745 in the hamlet of Gubblecote, near Tring in Hertfordshire, an elderly woman named Ruth Osborne...

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September 23, 2018

City of Song: A London Sixties Music Trail

My new book, the second of the London Trails series, is out now. City of Song: A London Sixties Music...

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Park Hill
August 31, 2018

Nothing was too good

There are some who say that like ancient Rome, Sheffield was built on seven hills. Whatever the truth of...

by Kit Ward
Noose & Gibbet Inn Sheffield
July 29, 2018

Death of a highwayman

To be thrice-memorialised on a single stretch of road might seem extravagant for a monarch, let alone an obscure,...

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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