Blogs about United Kingdom

Over the last seven days at The Archive we have added an incredible half a million brand new newspaper pages, alongside three brand new titles, as we use our new pages to learn more about …

Thursday 25th April 2024 Mid Cornwall Metro is a £56.8 million project providing a new hourly Coast to Coast link with direct trains running between Newquay, Par, St Austell, Truro, Penryn (for the Exeter University …

Events are rapidly overtaking the Scottish National Party. Last Thursday Peter Murrell, Nicola Sturgeon’s husband and for more than two decades the party’s Chief Executive, was arrested and charged in connection with a fraud investigation …

A Journey to Avebury is the name of a short silent film made by Derek Jarman made in 1971. Shot in wobbly Super 8, and saturated with burnt orange hues, it has an otherworldly eldritch …

A place 'so secure that all the forces in Britain shall not find him out.' But could we find it?

I spoke with The Stack about the Investigatory Powers Amendment Act, which has passed its third reading and is awaiting royal assent.

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 …

Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre is described as “probably the best building in Bury” by the famed architectural historian, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner. It stands on Silver Street, Bury’s grandest architectural road. Bury Art Gallery …

24th April 2024 I am not an American lawyer, but here are some thoughts from an English litigation perspective. Trump is adept at what he calls (or his ghost writer called) ‘the art of the …

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, …

Today I headed east to Earlestown where there are a number of pubs overdue for a revisit. I began by walking past some good targets which I will get on the way back, to Vulcan …

Who is Iain Sinclair, and where did he come from? That’s what people in London wanted to know in the early 1970s, east of Liverpool Street Station. His formative years were gradually disclosed in instalments …

Masked Aberdeen rapper M2 is ready to make waves with the upcoming release of his second single, Local Shop The post Aberdeen rapper M2 ready to drop new track ‘Local Shop’ appeared first on POST …

March 2023 Last time I had a lot of problems completing my previous walk (that finished in Dunoon) due to the ferry not running on my 2nd attempt (my first attempt being cancelled due to …

The guard scanned my e-ticket. He looked at the results. "You've come all the way from Liverpool to go to Bromsgrove?""Yeah," I smiled."Never mind." He walked away.Bromsgrove started well enough. It got a new station …

After battling wind and sleet, I walk along a boring road, and reach another beautiful beach. Continue reading →

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 …

❚ WHETHER YOU LIKE ABBA’s SONGS or not, the scale of the West-End musical MAMMA MIA!’s success is staggering. Over 25 years it has been seen by 70 million people in 450 cities across the …

It is generally recognised that the IDA has been one of the most successful state agencies charged with attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) in the world. Less attention has been paid to the outstanding role …

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 …