Blogs about United Kingdom
27 blogs about United Kingdom.
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The British Newspaper Archive Blog
Amazing finds and news from over 300 years of historical newspapers.
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Hot off the Press – New titles this week We’ve added 153,774 pages to 10 regional titles to The Archive this week. We have added seventy-five years worth of material from between 1911 and 2003. Our additions focus on augmenting existing titles including the …
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BusAndTrainUser
Journeys around Britain by bus and train.
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Jottings from Euro Bus Expo 2024 Thursday 14th November 2024 It’s Bus and Coach Show time again. Since Tuesday the NEC is playing host to the biannual exhibition that showcases shiny new buses, coaches, minibuses and mini coaches and a whole …
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Conservative Home
Britain's leading Conservative blog for news, comment, analysis and campaigns, edited by Paul Goodman.
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Will Prescott: Lessons for UK Conservatives – Australia’s Labor Party are struggling but their opposition isn’t gaining William Prescott is a researcher at Bright Blue. After less than three years in office, Australia’s Labor Government is floundering amidst a lack of direction, cost-of-living pressures and falling popularity. Despite this, Australia’s opposition – …
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East of Elveden
Hidden places, secret histories and unsung geography from the east of England and beyond.
By Laurence Mitchell. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Of Whales and Ancestors: Ostend, Norfolk The very mention of the village of Happisburgh in Norfolk brings to mind all manner of prehistoric associations and connections with long-extinct ancestors. The early years of this current century have revealed exciting local evidence …
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The Hazel Tree
by Jo Woolf.
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Back to the Garvellachs Precious and fleeting, an autumn wander around these 'Isles of the Sea'
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Hi, I'm Heather Burns – Blog
at home in the world.
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Femmes de Paris An object lesson from the spring of 1940 has a message for you in 2024.
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The history of Witham, Essex
Some Research by Janet Gyford.
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Manors. Witham (Chipping) and Newland. When I was preparing the Post about the Town Hall, I started to write about manorial records, and their value in local history. But this was breaking up the Town Hall story too much, and …
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Lancashire Past – Lancashire History Website and Blog
Lancashire History Website and Blog.
By Adrian Bowden, R Bowden. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
A History of Great Crosby Windmill In 1813, rich local landowner William Blundell commissioned the building of a new windmill at Great Crosby. He employed William Murray from Chester le Street in Durham to construct it. Work began that May and …
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The Law and Policy Blog
Independent commentary on law and policy from a liberal constitutionalist and critical perspective.
By David Allen Green. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
New stories for old – making sense of a political-constitutional rupture 14th November 2024 * LAUNCELOT: I will send help as soon as I have accomplished a daring and heroic rescue in my own particular… CONCORDE: Idiom, sir? LAUNCELOT: …idiom! – Monty Python and the Quest …
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Literary Britain – Blog
Travels through the literary landscape: a guide to places of literary interest in the British Isles and beyond.
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The Beatles I was late. The minibus was already at the stop. I did something I very rarely do and broke into a run. I was the last one there. I was shown into a minibus that, …
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Merseyside Pub Guide
The Researcher's Blog.
By Phil Wieland. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Birkenhead On a chilly damp Saturday afternoon I headed under the Mersey to Birkenhead where I started in the Richmond:Outside this one looks a bit down at heel, the inside is much better, plain but pleasant. …
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The New English Landscape
For more than a decade we have documented the changing landscape and coastline of Essex and East Anglia, particularly its estuaries, islands and urban edgelands.
By Jason Orton, Ken Worpole. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
The view from the train Balcony horticulture, 2023 The social and political after-effects of the catastrophe of the First World War included recognising that many who had sacrificed their lives had done so with little if any stake in the …
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POST | Aberdeen's People | Aberdeen's Community | Aberdeen's Culture
A window into our city and it’s community. Not just the weather, the news, but the stories of people from within our communities.
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Doric Skateboards Rolls Out Support for Mental Health Aberdeen with Special Auction When passion for skateboarding meets community spirit, remarkable things can happen. Today we're sharing a chat with Gary Kemp, founder of Doric Skateboards. He's currently running a special auction for a unique Buttery skateboard deck …
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Round the Island
Walking round the coast of Mainland Britain.
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467. Glenluce to New England Bay May 2025 Today’s walk was originally planned to be one of the shorter ones of this trip but I had since revised the route, which meant it was now a fair bit longer but promised …
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round the rails we go
capturing Britain's railways, one station at a time.
By Scott Willison. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Somebody Take My Money I was going to write a different blog post. I had one lined up about Merseyrail that was very nice and complimentary and optimistic. I would've written it yesterday, but an existential crisis about the …
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Ruth's Coastal Walk (UK)
Coastalwalker.co.uk - walking around the British coastline, very SLOWLY.
By Ruth Livingstone. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Rehabilitation: getting back to normality… I wanted my old life back... but it was going to take time. And I faced the dreaded post-treatment tests. Continue reading →
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Scarfolk Council
Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum.
By Richard Littler. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Bad Kingdom (1972) In 1972, the government drew up plans to construct a deportation facility off the coast of Ireland that could house as many as 70 million people - the entire population of the UK, if need …
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Shapers of the 80s
British youth culture at its finest.
By David Johnson. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
2024 ➤ Andy Polaris reminds us of Quincy Jones’s legacy as a titan of 20th-century showbiz ❚ The cross-cultural pioneer Quincy Jones died this week aged 91 in Los Angeles. In tribute, we republish Andy Polaris’s appreciation of his genius when he brought a huge orchestra to London’s O2 arena on …
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Slugger O'Toole
Conversation, politics and stray insights.
By Mick Fealty, David McCann, Brian Walker, et al. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
A5 upgrade faces delay due to possible legal challenge (again) The future of the A5 upgrade was again thrown into uncertainty last night as reports emerged that a legal challenge to the decision to build the long-delayed road was on the verge of being lodged. …
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A Suffolk Lane
A diary of my life in rural north Suffolk.
By Clare Pooley. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Holiday in Brittany – August 1999. Part 2. Here follows the next episode of our Brittany holiday. I thought I would include here an example of Breton folk music just so you can get an idea of the kind of music we heard …