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Today, having already done tours of Roman, Anglo-Saxon & Medieval London, I am going to take the obvious next step. Yes, folks – it’s #TudorLondon!“The town which Brutus sought,” as
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A big day for fans of elite sport, as my team of Olympian gods takes on @alycett1's Literary Detectives XI in the first round of the @AuthorsCC book cricket tournament.The
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My native county facing the hour of need it does, I would urge all my followers who can to #VisitWiltshire, the most beautiful, historic & welcoming region of England. Every
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It is yet another of the many paradoxes of Christianity’s legacy on our society that, even as it has defined for us - by & large - our sense of
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To St Albans - “the fairest & best Town in the County of Hertford,” as Edmund Bohun described it in 1688 - there to meet with @Feargal_Sharkey, & walk the
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We arrive in Devizes to visit @WiltshireMuseum - which very much does what it says on the tin. The museum was opened in 1874, & is run by the Wiltshire
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The notion that the Church's prohibition against cousin-marriage was "accidental," a cynical scam to get rich, is grotesquely reductive. The reason for it lay in a sacral understanding of marriage
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Franz Nopsca, the gay Hungarian aristocrat who, as well as studying the dwarf dinosaurs of Transylvania & pushing the radical hypothesis that birds were dinosaurs, was also the first man
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An early night tonight, ready to get up early tomorrow to catch the tide, & build AN EVEN BETTER SANDCASTLE THAN LASY YEAR!!! https://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/1147052584521347077 A sign from the gods! A
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“Man knoweth his inward thoughts, purposes, and desires, but the frame and disposition of his heart hee knowes not, nor yet alwaies the qualities of those thoughts, whither they tend,
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To Southwark, where, at the start of the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer met with"Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignyeOf sondry folk, by áventure y-falleIn felaweshipe, and pilgrimes were they alle..."Our
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Despite having slept on it, I still can't quite believe that the PM has incinerated his own & his government's moral authority at a time of grievous national crisis, when
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