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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 developers and planners get their way, every village will too...

by Kit Ward
Hoover building - exterior
March 31, 2020

Splendour on the Western Avenue

There is a social history of Britain in the last one hundred years to be written using land and...

by Kit Ward
Oxford Martyrs memorial
February 29, 2020

Salvation and damnation at stake

Walk down the middle of Broad Street in Oxford, taking care to avoid being hit by a car or,...

by Kit Ward
Graffiti - Aylesbury
January 29, 2020

Social medium-rare

Some graffiti appeared near my home recently and it struck me that they were of a kind I hadn’t...

by Kit Ward
Fleet Prison
January 13, 2020

Henry Howard in Fleet Prison

Fleet Prison, so-called because it was located close to the River Fleet, was located just outside the medieval city...

by Kit Ward
Tara and Nicki Browne
December 29, 2019

Tara Browne’s fatal accident: ‘Like a death knell sounding over London’

More than half a century on, though Sixties London may conjure up ideas of hedonism, rebellion and freedom, there...

by Kit Ward
Tower of London
November 17, 2019

Chidiock Tichborne in the Tower of London

The Tower of London has held a number of notable prisoners, among them Sir Walter Raleigh, Samuel Pepys, and...

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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