Friday, May 10, 2013

Heritage lottery grant for the Richard Jefferies Museum

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Good news from Swindon Link : One of Swindon’s historic gems is about to get a boost after being told it is to receive a £30,000 grant ...

Nottinghamshire Police cop Headline of the Day

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For their splendidly poker faced: Mr and Mrs Speed profited from amphetamines Thanks to Alex Foster.
Thursday, May 09, 2013

A new Eleanor Cross at Stamford

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I have been to Geddington and Hardingstone in Northamptonshire to see two of the three surviving Eleanor Crosses - the third is at W...
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Jo Swinson and Shirley Williams on what needs to change at Westminster

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The House Magazine has a joint interview with these two leading Liberal Democrats on  the challenges of being a female politician, what has...

An anthropologist looks at the Liberal Democrats

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I am not the first to link to this article, but if you have not yet read the field study of the Liberal Democrats by Fred Carver on his blog...
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Wednesday, May 08, 2013

The ghost signs of Oakham

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Conference marks 50th anniversary of C.L.R. James's Beyond a Boundary

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An international conference is taking place at the University of Glasgow on Friday and Saturday to mark the 50th anniversary of the publica...
Tuesday, May 07, 2013

The River Welland at Stamford

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Some 20 miles downstream of Market Harborough comes Stamford. The Welland is considerably larger by then, and beyond Stamford it was cana...

"Now we can sit back and watch the Tories go mad" - an apology

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When the Liberal Democrats won the Eastleigh by-election in the small hours of 1 March, I got rather carried away on Twitter: Congratulati...
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Time for moderate Conservatives to show some backbone

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From the Leicester Mercury : A senior Tory county councillor says he was disappointed that a number of his ballot papers were spoiled by v...

Jimmy Tarbuck and Terry-Thomas

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This is not a comment on the guilt or innocence of Jimmy Tarbuck, but I have come across a piece of trivia that is too good not to share. ...
Monday, May 06, 2013

Stamford Water Street station

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Stamford has a station on the Leicester to Peterborough line - today it largely houses the railway bookseller Robert Humm & Co. - bu...
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The remarkable careers of John Freeman

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The consensus is that the death of Rear Admiral Sir Morgan Morgan-Giles has left John Freeman, the last survivor of the 1945 House of Common...
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Six of the Best 350

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Gareth Epps tells us what Nick Clegg should have said after Thursday’s elections. "Putting in 20 mph speed limits in residential s...

Cat of the Day stays right here in Market Harborough

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Sunday, May 05, 2013

GUEST POST Political defections: Storms of protest or signs of political climate change?

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Dr Alun Wyburn-Powell , author of Defectors and the Liberal Party 1910-2010 , looks at the history of defections from the Liberal Party and...
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Paul Williams: Look What I Found

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Like several people who have commented on Youtube, I remember liking this song in 1973 and have never heard it since. Being objective, it ...

Is John Freeman now the oldest former MP?

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Rear-Admiral Sir Morgan Charles Morgan-Giles (born 19 June 1914) died yesterday. If an earlier post on this blog is correct, that means t...
Saturday, May 04, 2013

Iain Sinclair and Jonathan Meades in conversation

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An hour with two of this blog's heroes - you may want to skip the introductions and go straight to 6:30.
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Lyddington Bede House, Rutland

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Lyddington is a village stretched along a single road. Its buildings, which include two good pubs, are of an almost gaudy orange limeston...