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The Story of the Fox Inn, Juniper

July 24, 2022

(photo (c) Snidge, from https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Juniper_Hill_-_geograph.org.uk_-_344120.jpg) Here are two inventories of the contents of a little...

Sir Henry Sidney and the Three Bears

July 7, 2013

Heritage footpath projects are full of traps for the unwary. Footpaths tend to slice across...

Cross bones

March 9, 2015

Where to go on a Sunday morning in London? It was International Women’s Day (what?...

Llangybi: several generations of wall paintings

March 23, 2014

Our annual field trip up the Usk to Llangybi: we can get there, look at...

Off the Celtic Stones Trail

March 14, 2014

Well, the attempt to find another way over Stormy Down was a complete bust –...

If the past is a foreign country, should you get its geography right?

August 19, 2013

Hilary Mantel says that if you want to write historical novels and you include facts...