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A Bit About Britain's blog features articles about places to visit in Britain, British history, events in Britain - and more. It is a personal, independent, project that seeks to inspire, inform and entertain. It provides a portal into Britain's history, heritage, and landscape, tells stories that put places and events into context and appeals to armchair travellers, and visitor alike.
A Bit About Britain Blog
2w ago
Which anniversaries will be marked in Britain in 2025? Open a window on the past by reviewing a selection of noteworthy British anniversaries, from the year 2000 as far back as Roman Britain. Also mentioned are more than 80 British celebrities born in the last 150 years. Each event and person is on someone’s calendar […]
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1M ago
I have been contemplating Christmas; it must be the time of year. I normally look forward to the season, finding some joy and hope in it. Consequently, there are several festive-themed articles on A Bit About Britain and, because they are what I like to refer to as ‘evergreen content’, people look at them every […]
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3M ago
The skeletal ruins of Coventry’s medieval cathedral of St Michael’s are a stark reminder of the destruction of an old war. Paradoxically, it and the adjacent new cathedral of which it is a part, serve as emblems of reconciliation and the quest for peace. The appearance of both buildings was conceived in one night, Thursday […]
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3M ago
Britain, the haunted island Tracking down Britain’s most haunted places is a tough mission. The entire British Isles is a place of myths and legends, of ghosts and gods and spirits, where folk memories go back thousands of years. Travelling from the east, the first settlers found these islands at the farthest edge of Europe. […]
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5M ago
I took the afternoon off and went in search of mild adventure. Nothing too exciting – just the memory of a drowned and forgotten village, some ancient stones, a bit about a saintly 7th century king, a couple of long-ruined castles not many people have heard of – and a cockatrice. Surprisingly few people have […]
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6M ago
The Abbey and Gold Hill are two very good reasons to visit the historic town of Shaftesbury. Another is the views; at something over 700 feet, it is the highest settlement in the county of Dorset. To get to know it a bit, you also need to understand that, whilst most places are happy to […]
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A Bit About Britain Blog
7M ago
I don’t get too many invitations these days. So, when one pops onto the digital doormat it receives serious attention. The invitation in this instance was to the Chalke History Festival and it came from a nice bunch of folk collectively known as ‘Guidl’. Guidl is a new venture and was a sponsor of the […]
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A Bit About Britain Blog
7M ago
ABAB’s Places now lists 200 places to visit in Britain. There is enough information about each one to tell you if you want to know more and links where available – to elsewhere on A Bit About Britain, the place’s own website, or both – to help you find it. Currently, all are places to […]
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8M ago
6 June 2024 is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the ‘Day of Days’. Was it really that long ago? Growing up in the ‘60s and ‘70s, with parents who lived through the Second World War, reminders were ubiquitous and it never seemed that far away. It wasn’t, when you think about it – it is […]
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10M ago
I want to thank everyone for their kind thoughts and comments last week, when I had to pull some content from ABAB. I felt an apology was necessary, since a new article had just been published and anyone who had been notified of that would have found nothing on the end of the link. I […]
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