Leaving Caldey
Jon Woolcott contemplates the family histories lost to time. Lacuna: noun 1. lake, 2. a hiatus, blank, missing part. My...
25th May 2022
Tagged as: social history
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Gone but not Forgotten
Published this week by Faber, Matthew Green's 'Shadowlands: A Journey through Lost Britain' unearths the stories of Britain's lost cities, ghost...15th March 2022
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Vanished Streets
Open at the People's History Museum, Manchester, until February 2022, Vanished Streets is an exhibition of 1970s photographs of lost...17th November 2021
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Shadows and Reflections: Frances Castle
It’s time for the annual musings known as Shadows and Reflections. Since so many of our lives were lived in...10th January 2021
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The World of Thomas Turner #8
Here follows the final instalment of Mathew Clayton’s monthly column exploring the daily life of a Sussex village in the middle...22nd February 2020
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Revel And Rhyme
Cally Callomon commends the debut album from Nettlebone; a journey through England’s largely neglected social and political history As an...30th January 2020
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The World of Thomas Turner #7
A seasonal and succinct entry from the mid-18th century diary of Thomas Turner, as explored in Mathew Clayton's monthly column....24th December 2019
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The World of Thomas Turner #6
This Sporting Life: a new instalment of Mathew Clayton’s monthly column exploring the daily life of a Sussex village in the...7th November 2019
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Mudlarking
Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for over fifteen years, in pursuit of the objects that the...15th August 2019
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The World of Thomas Turner #5
A new instalment of Mathew Clayton’s monthly column exploring the daily life of a Sussex village in the middle of the...31st July 2019
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The World of Thomas Turner #4
A new instalment of Mathew Clayton’s monthly column exploring the daily life of a Sussex village in the middle of the...15th June 2019
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Super flumina
Andrew Rumsey walks Wiltshire's Vale of Pewsey, and delves into the area's history Sideburns of cow parsley bushing into the...30th May 2019
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The World of Thomas Turner #3
A new instalment of Mathew Clayton’s monthly column exploring the daily life of a Sussex village in the middle of the...29th April 2019
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The World of Thomas Turner #2
A new instalment of Mathew Clayton’s monthly column exploring the daily life of a Sussex village in the middle of...27th March 2019
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The World of Thomas Turner
In a new monthly column, Mathew Clayton explores the daily life of a Sussex village in the middle of the...21st February 2019
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Folk Song in England
Folk Song in England by Steve Roud, with chapters by Julia Bishop (Faber & Faber, hardback, 767 pages. Out now...9th September 2017
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The Glass Aisle
Paul Henry reflects on the evolution of his poem The Glass Aisle and a remarkable collaboration – with Stornoway frontman...29th August 2017