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Writing tagged: ‘history’

Alternative history

Had Arthur, Prince of Wales lived.

Published 24-Apr-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: history, royalty

Alternative history

What would have happened if Hitler had won?

Published 03-Apr-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: history, hitler, nazis, smoking, tv, windpowerstations

Local news

New plaque tells truth of Peterloo killings 188 years on.

Published 28-Dec-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: history, media, newspapers

U-534

Photo of U-Boat in Birkenhead.

Published 21-Dec-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: history, u-boats

Spoiler

Jen's mum explains Tudor history.

Published 04-Nov-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: conversations, history, jen, religion, tv

Yorkshire cricket

Cricket match played next to my house, Sat. April 11, 1896!

Published 30-May-2006
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: cricket, hebden bridge, history, jen, yorkshire

Reflections on the British Empire

Inspired by a map.

Published 11-Apr-2006
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: history

Someone had blundered

Today is 150th anniversary of the charge of the Light Brigade.

Published 25-Oct-2004
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: history

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On the Moor

On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk
“…wonderfully droll, witty and entertaining… At their best Carter’s moorland walks and his meandering intellectual talk are part of a single, deeply coherent enterprise: a restless inquiry into the meaning of place and the nature of self.”
—Mark Cocker, author and naturalist
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