Showing posts with label Wiltshire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wiltshire. Show all posts
Thursday, June 18, 2026

The Major Oak is dead and Phil Harding has discovered another ancient site near Stonehenge

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Forget Sycamore Gap: this is real tragedy. The Major Oak in Sherwood Forest is dead. The Guardian reports: The Major oak, one of Europe’s o...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

The Joy of Six 1494

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"After months of rhetoric from Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves blaming newts and bats for supposedly blocking growth, it’s good to see t...
Friday, February 13, 2026

Richard Jefferies Museum plans new Centre for Arts and Wildlife

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The Richard Jefferies Museum, which is housed in the writer's birthplace at Coate Farm, Swindon, is raising money to fund its plans for ...
Tuesday, February 03, 2026

Richard Jefferies: If we had never before looked upon the earth

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During Covid lockdown in 2020, the actor Simon Russell Beale, who lives in the town, recorded some readings from the work of my man Richard ...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Wadworth brewery in Devizes transformed by demolition

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For what I believe is the first time, Wiltshire's Gazette & Herald wins our Headline of the Day Award. Don't worry: the historic...
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Thursday, October 23, 2025

The Joy of Six 1425

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"The Cabinet Office, Lord Gove and Ciga Healthcare were approached for comment but did not respond by time of publication." Byline...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

The Joy of Six 1407

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"The puzzle for me is what drives Labour politicians (and some others) around the ID card loop? What is the enduring appeal of ID cards...
Monday, May 19, 2025

GUEST POST The state of our canals - and canalside pubs - today

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Fresh from a canal holiday made difficult by unannounced closures, Peter Chambers looks at the many challenges facing the Canal & River...
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Thursday, May 01, 2025

Phil Harding: Insights from 50 years as an archaeologist

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Here's Phil Harding, star of Time Team, talking about his life in archaeology. The video is chiefly aimed at those taking up a similar c...
Sunday, April 06, 2025

The Joy of Six 1343

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"The UK AI Action Plan quite explicitly encourages building up a greater tolerance for 'scientific and technical risk'. This is...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Richard Jefferies: The granddaddy of nature writing

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This is another of the columns I write for the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy - you can read more about the J...
Monday, December 16, 2024

First newspaper listing for what became the Spencer Davis Group?

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It's not much to look at, but this notice from the Birmingham Mail for 23 October 1963 sets a new record for the earliest press mention ...
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Sunday, November 24, 2024

Coate Water, Swindon, filmed from the air

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Coate Water in Swindon was formed by diverting the River Cole. It was originally a reservoir for the Wilts & Berks Canal, and when the ...
Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Conservationists say beaver bombing is the fault of government

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Why are there now so many beavers living on rivers across the south of England? Patrick Barkham will tell you: "Beaver bombing", ...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Listen to a short radio essay on Richard Jefferies' The Pigeons at the British Museum

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The life of the country writer can be riven with contradictions. This blog's hero Richard Jefferies, for instance, spent a significant p...
Monday, July 15, 2024

The Holy Dipstick of Salisbury is now just for show

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Salisbury Cathedral's foundations are so shallow that it effectively rests on a bed of gravel and water. If the water gets too low, it h...
Friday, July 05, 2024

Those Lib Dem targets for the next general election in full

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Embed from Getty Images Michael Mullaney, who was our candidate in Hinckley and Bosworth on Thursday, has tweeted a list of the Liberal Demo...
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Friday, April 05, 2024

Aldbourne: John Barleycorn was there before Mr Magister

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Last time we were in Aldbourne we saw Jon Pertwee get the better of The Master, or Mr Magister as he was known in this Wiltshire village. Bu...
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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Desmond Morris, surrealism, The Naked Ape and Richard Jefferies

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Embed from Getty Images The Rest is History podcast on history's greatest monkeys was a disappointment in that there was no mention of ...
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Tuesday, March 05, 2024

Richard Jefferies and the Northern Lights

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There's a Twitter account that's currently retweeting the whole of Bevis by Richard Jefferies . I thought I knew the book pretty we...