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St Frideswide
June 29, 2019

Frideswide and the treacle well

The Saxon princess-abbess-saint Frideswide was not the founder of Oxford: there was certainly a settlement at the confluence of...

by Kit Ward
TE Lawrence camera Oxford
June 16, 2019

Sexing up the camera

Among the objects gathered in the collection of the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford are a...

by Kit Ward
Stoke Mandeville old village
May 31, 2019

A neglected spot

My last post was about the effects of Victorian railway construction on a London churchyard. The present day High...

by Kit Ward
Hardy Tree
April 29, 2019

Human jam

The coming of the railways gouged, scoured, and re-made the British landscape more dramatically than any process since the...

by Kit Ward
Old Sarum OS monument
March 31, 2019

Mudge’s buried cannon

Anyone visiting the Iron Age hill fort at Old Sarum in Wiltshire is likely to miss the weathered, lichen-speckled...

by Kit Ward
Cupid in Fitzrovia
February 22, 2019

Cupid in Fitzrovia

Flying through Fitzrovia, Cupid collided with a drone. He fell to earth in New Cavendish Street, landing in a...

by Kit Ward
HM Stanley grave
January 31, 2019

The extraordinary Stanley

On a Sunday walk in the Surrey countryside, I came into the village of Pirbright and wandered into the...

by Kit Ward
National Centre for Popular Music
December 23, 2018

A tale of lottery-funded hubris

The Bilbao Guggenheim has a lot to answer for. Its remarkable, undeniable success generated two dubious notions. The first...

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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