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The Signing of the National Covenant in Greyfriars Churchyard
December 28, 2021

The Scottish Covenanters vs a Skye terrier: who would win?

Anybody on the Edinburgh tourist trail will eventually end up in Greyfriars Kirkyard. The kirk itself was founded on...

by Kit Ward
December 18, 2021

From a Leith bus stop

The execution is poor, I grant you, but I was intrigued by these graffiti bookending a Leith bus stop.

by Kit Ward
Watts memorial
November 20, 2021

To the common hero

Under the heading of ‘ANOTHER JUBILEE SUGGESTION’ a letter from the painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts was published...

by Kit Ward
Putney debates linocut by Clare Melinsky
October 23, 2021

Grandees and Levellers

The meeting of the General Council of the New Model Army that began on 28 October 1647 took place...

by Kit Ward
Peter the Wild Boy grave
September 26, 2021

The Thing in human Shape

Visit the church of St Mary’s in Northchurch, Hertfordshire and you will see, on a raised section of the...

by Kit Ward
Mary Rose men
August 29, 2021

Human remains

If Edmund Burke was right that the dead are as much a part of Society as the living, then...

by Kit Ward
Wellclose Square 1920
July 28, 2021

Two gentlemen of Wellclose Square

Wellclose Square is nothing to look at today, dominated as it is by regulation-ugly blocks of council flats, but...

by Kit Ward
MK Light Pyramid
June 29, 2021

An MK sun day

On the face of it, Milton Keynes is a model of rational town planning, built from scratch fifty years...

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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