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A COFFEE morning for a children’s charity will be held in Alresford on Saturday October 28. The Michael Project will hold the event at John…

A NEW history of Alresford,has just been published by the local Historical and Literary Society.

A selection of Christmas poems from Wordsworth, Tennyson, Browning and more

Social Unrest Is the Inevitable Legacy of the Covid Pandemic Nov 16 2020, 5:12 PM November 14 2020, 11:30 AM November 16 2020, 5:12 PM (Bloomberg Opinion) -- “So when our Sickness, and our Poverty Had greater wants than we could well supply; Strict Orders did but more enrage our grief, And hinder in accomplishing relief.” (Bloomberg Opinion) -- “So when our Sickness, and our Poverty Had greater wants than we could well supply; Strict Orders did but more enrage our grief, And hinder in accomplishing relief.” That’s how the British poet George Wither explained a sprea...

After every major pandemic, there is social unrest… “So when our Sickness, and our Poverty Had greater wants than we could well supply; Strict Orders did but more enrage our grief, And hinder in accomplishing relief.” That’s how the British poet George Wither explained a spreading rebellion against social-distancing rules. Seeing quarantines and lockdowns as unfair and tyrannical punishments, people were taking to the streets. The year was 1625, the place was London, the disease was plague. …The peasant revolt in the 1300s, the civil unrest in the 1600s and the civil disobe...