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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
Rowden Farm
October 28, 2022

Trainrobbing

I’m not old enough to remember the Great Train Robbery of 1963, but I am old enough to remember...

by Kit Ward
Aylesbury Proclamation
September 11, 2022

Proclamation

As with most Britons alive today, there hasn’t been a change of the UK’s Sovereign in my lifetime. Not...

by Kit Ward
St Mary Redcliffe window
August 28, 2022

Cancelling Colston

Bristol’s connection with the slave trade goes back a long way, a thousand years and more. Slavery was an...

by Kit Ward
Anglo-Saxon burial ground Greenwich
July 30, 2022

Anglo-Saxon bones

There aren’t many material traces of the Anglo-Saxons visible in London, at least within the bounds of the old...

by Kit Ward
University College Oxford
June 29, 2022

Murder on the quad

The title of this post sounds like it might belong to a story by Agatha Christie or Dorothy L...

by Kit Ward
North Hinksey
May 30, 2022

The scholar navvies

In 1874 John Ruskin, art critic, Fellow of Christ Church, and Slade Professor of Fine Art, was riding out...

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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