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Travels round the edge of history

David Bowen

Intriguing history from intriguing places, by David Bowen

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The 1911 Quiz: Number 12

Each question is taken from an entry in this volume, which runs from DEM to EDW. What is the entry? I’ve written a piece on the background to the quiz here. Even if you don’t know an answer, I hope you find the explanation below enlightenin...

7 days ago
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Jacobean tragedy: scheming, sex and a stately home

It’s hard to tell this story in one post, so I’m splitting into two. I hope you will bear with me.

We walked from the ancient town of Saffron Walden on the Essex/Cambridgeshire border to the local stately home, Audley End. It is magnificen...

8 days ago
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Pirates and Teutonic knights: the unlikely owners of a strategic island

Vivesholm is a delightful nature reserve near Västergarn, 20 miles south of Visby on the island of Gotland. There was no-one around as I wandered to the edge of the sea, which was strewn with boulders and seabirds. I walked back through a m...

15 days ago
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Squabbling Gotlanders and beastly Danes: a story told in crumbling beauty

If you walk around the town of Visby, on the island of Gotland, you will see the great warehouses that brought so much prosperity in the thirteenth century, as I have written here. But as you keep wandering, it’s hard not to notice somethin...

22 days ago
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The curious case of the disappearing islands

If you look up Bouvet island, you will read that it is the most remote island on earth. It belongs to Norway, is uninhabited, and is 1,100 miles from Antarctica and 1,570 miles from South Africa. It looks as bleak as you might expect:

But...

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