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 This week at The Archive we have put in a sterling effort as we have now reached over 87 million pages, having added 299,609 brand new pages in all, alongside two brand new titles (the …
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BusAndTrainUser
Journeys around Britain by bus and train.
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Northumberland line: another success in the making Tuesday 17th December 2024 Over the last ten years we’ve welcomed Tweedbank in 2015, Okehampton in 2021, then Levenmouth earlier this year and now this week, after a 60 year break, passenger trains are running …
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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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Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Never glad confident morning again for Starmer The Prime Minister wags his finger! He wags a finger from each hand! His dignity, his very probity, are being called into question, and this he cannot tolerate. But he will have to tolerate it. …
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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
The Road to Dirē Dawa The road to Dirē Dawa is a long one: an eight-hour drive from Addis Ababa, or so we are told. We left Addis Ababa at dawn, our bus rattling through empty streets shadowed by new-build …
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The Hazel Tree
by Jo Woolf.
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Ardvreck Castle This gaunt Macleod stronghold stands on the shore of Loch Assynt in Sutherland
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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 Waugh’s Well, near Edenfield Waugh’s Well is built around a natural spring, high up on Scout Moor. It was a favourite place of Lancashire’s most famous dialect poet, Edwin Waugh. Born in Rochdale in 1817, Waugh rose from humble …
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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
An argument about Assisting Dying – matters of life and death need to be properly regulated by law, and not by official discretion 28 November 2024 I almost did not publish the post below. The online (and no doubt offline) debate about this topic is heated and often abusive, and as one gets older one loses usually loses …
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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
It's Never Just One I was in town for some shopping but it I couldn't resist visiting a pub which only opened yesterday, so I headed up Seel Street to 1936 Pub Co's newest outlet, St Peters Tavern:Wow! 1936 …
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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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Why I’m Watching a Film I Can’t Stand at Aberdeen’s Most Beloved Cinema Event At POST, we love sharing perspectives on Aberdeen’s cultural life—even when they’re a bit unexpected. In this piece, Chris Sansbury takes a swing at the Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life, all while preparing to …
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Round the Island
Walking round the coast of Mainland Britain.
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471. Gatehouse of Fleet to Newton Stewart May 2024 My walk today was one I wasn’t looking forward to as it was mostly going to be on a very busy A-road, the A75. I had arrived in Scotland yesterday and did the …
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round the rails we go
capturing Britain's railways, one station at a time.
By Scott Willison. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
White, Chocolate This is entirely in my head, I know, but it seems to snow in Birmingham a lot. Well, at least it seems to snow a lot when I visit. I was last on this section …
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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
Belfast’s transport system is currently flat on its face with acute congestion… We talk of cities in human terms. They’re the ‘beating heart’ of an economy with ‘arterial routes’ into the city. Cities have financial ‘nerve-centres’ and a ‘circulation’ of people and traffic. People are the ‘life-blood’ …
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A Suffolk Lane
A diary of my life in rural north Suffolk.
By Clare Pooley. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Excuses, Excuses! Dear All; and you are all very dear to me and I have been thinking of you a lot over the past many months. Some of you may have forgotten all about me, some may …