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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...

by Kit Ward
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...

by Kit Ward
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
Flint cairn, Cobham, Kent
July 16, 2018

Flint cairn

Kentish field flecked with flint. Farmer picked the flint from field, Planting piles along the fringe.

by Kit Ward
Barbican Estate calthemites
June 21, 2018

The Barbican endures

Brutalist architecture mostly leaves me cold or repulsed but I’ve always had a liking, verging on an affection, for...

by Kit Ward
Norwegian church Cardiff
June 14, 2018

Norwegian wood

A small wooden church on Cardiff Bay testifies to the most significant influx of Norwegians to Britain since the...

by Kit Ward
David Bowie Earthly Messenger
May 6, 2018

A new career in an old town

If there was going to be a memorial statue for David Bowie then Aylesbury might seem an odd, out-of-the-way...

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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