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The Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest – 14 October 1066
No CommentsRead moreThe British Isles has a long history of invaders: Angles, Danes, Saxons, Vikings. But on the 28 September 1066, when…
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Kate Bush live – Before the Dawn
No CommentsRead moreThirty-five years after her previous live shows, Kate Bush stepped out onto the stage of London’s Hammersmith Odeon to rapturous…
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Wharf Stream Way waymarker post
No CommentsRead moreIn June, I submitted a design to be carved as a waymarker post as part of the The Wharf Stream…
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The death of Paul Gauguin – 8 May 1903
No CommentsRead more“In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of ‘revolutionary’; and it is…
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What is a drypoint: badgers and bluebells
No CommentsRead moreWhat is drypoint print? How do you make one? I explain in this blog.
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Van Gogh’s Tarascon Diligence at the Ashmolean
No CommentsRead moreTreasures from the Henry and Rose Pearlman collection Last week I went to Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum to see treasures from…
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Squonk
No CommentsRead moreSide 1 track 3 of Genesis’ 1977 album Trick of the Tail tells the tale of the squonk, a mythical…
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The self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi – 17 December 2010
No CommentsRead moreWhat a magic carpet ride it was for our brothers and sisters in North Africa and the Middle East. Egypt’s…
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Greenham Common Peace Women ‘Embrace the Base’
No CommentsRead moreA cold day in the Cold War The 12th December 1982 was cold. Not really the kind of day to…
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The death of Hernán Cortés – 2 December 1547
No CommentsRead more“He came dancing across the water with his galleons and guns, Looking for the new world in that palace in…
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