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'Haran Apuldran' means 'Anchorage at Appledore'. 'Hoary Apple Tree' is more...
Victorians were racist, sexist, religionist, imperialist fantasists, with limited grasp of ancient geography, language, and navigation. In their rush to re-write English history as leading to the...
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20 years ago yesterday two guys in garage decided to improve the way we find information on the internet and Google was born. I remember exactly where I was when I first heard the word Google. It was...
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The 1066 Surrender of London was at Westminster, not Berkhamsted
I have been thinking much of Berkhamsted, having presented last month to the Military History wing of the Dacorum U3A. It was a full house, which was very encouraging as I was debuting a new lecture...
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Guillaume and William, Guest and West, guile and wile: The vagaries of language
I have been thinking about the vagaries of language today, realising that the certainties of today melt as we trace words back through the very fluid languages of the past. It started with the...
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British Library Exhibition of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
I gave myself a full day out in London yesterday. After a panel retrospective on 2018 at the RSA I ventured to the British Library for the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibition. I was irritated by the...
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I am reading The Heliand, a 9th century retelling of the Christian gospels that takes vast liberties with the 4th century texts selectively approved by the Emperor Constantine as the Bible (Translation...
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What was the scandal that got RBS into trouble after the Great Financial Crisis of 2008? It boiled down to some small business loan managers (a few bad apples) lending to good businesses with good...
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