Where tourists seldom tread part 9: four more British towns with secret histories
Railway nostalgia, the world’s oldest football, fenland skies and a little-known bard are among the highlights of Crewe, Stirling, Boston and Barnstaple
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Railway nostalgia, the world’s oldest football, fenland skies and a little-known bard are among the highlights of Crewe, Stirling, Boston and Barnstaple
OUR man this week, Gavin Douglas, was a makar, a medieval Scots poet. Sometimes, you’ll see the man of letters’ name spelled as Gawin of Gawain.…
Of all the institutions of the British State, the one most acutely alert to the issue of devolved power is the one at the very apex.
A SHETLAND poet has reflected on reading at the service of thanksgiving for King Charles II in Edinburgh on Wednesday. Christine De Luca read in front of the King as well as the Prince and Princess of Wales at the royal event at St Giles’ Cathedral. The poet, who now lives in...
First City of the World- Ur Archaeologists have discovered evidences of an early occupation at Ur during the Ubaid period. These early levels were sealed off with a sterile deposit of soil that was interpreted by excavators of the 1920s as evidence for the Great Flood of the book of Genesis and Epic of Gilgamesh.…