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New church banners
September 12, 2020

Banners of the new religion

Here is a stretch of leafy road between Wendover and Ellesborough, at the north-eastern edge of the Chilterns, what...

by Kit Ward
anne-greene-hanging
August 27, 2020

The resurrection of the slippery quean

Anne Greene’s luck only began to turn after she was hanged. A maid-servant in the household of Sir Thomas...

by Kit Ward
Waylands Smithy
July 30, 2020

The barley in the stone

A coda to my recent visit to Wayland’s Smithy. The standing stones have multiple circular holes drilled in them....

by Kit Ward
Waylands Smithy
July 23, 2020

Let no rude hand

I’ve visited a few Neolithic sites in Britain but I don’t think I’ve ever been to one as serene...

by Kit Ward
Cardiff knight mural
June 21, 2020

The knight unmounted and mounted

It seems a curious subject to choose for a public work of art, this mural near the centre of...

by Kit Ward
John Michell book cover
May 31, 2020

The enchantments of the new Merlin

I always have mixed feelings before re-reading a book that had a profound effect in my youth (and isn’t...

by Kit Ward
Addington cows
May 2, 2020

Bovine epistemology

‘On behalf on the Bovine Philosophical Society, Addington branch, we wish you to know that the finest minds of...

by Kit Ward
Victorian terraces
April 19, 2020

The quantity theory of history

Every city, every town, has them. And if the planners and developers get their way, every village will too...

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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