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August 31, 2018

Review: Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall

I recently read Tim Marshall’s ‘Prisoners of Geography’, and this short post here is meant to be a brief look at some points within…

August 8, 2018

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 It is my innate liking of Anglo-Saxon Britain which makes me rate this at 3.5/5 rather than any particular…

July 22, 2018

Rating: 4 out of 5 ‘Empire’s first installment sounded a bit weaker to me than my recollections of the previous series’. This could be…

June 18, 2018

Rating: 5 out of 5 It was very easy for me to pick up another volume of ‘This Sceptred Isle’ as I absolutely adored…

June 2, 2018

I never expected to be visiting Binham but it was on the way. Or, rather, what I saw from the window of my car…

May 30, 2018

Creake’s history in effect spans not more than about three centuries, but in it we may find our historic senses of justice and injustice…

May 26, 2018

I will start by saying I did not even try and approach Dilham because it is a private property. The original fortfified structure was…

May 23, 2018

Visiting Hunworth was fun! One really wouldn’t expect to see a glacial escarpment just like the one that is located in the village in…

May 21, 2018

The Phantom Flotilla: The most exciting true story from the Royal Navy’s history by Peter Shankland My rating: 4 of 5 stars With a…

May 20, 2018

Gresham became, moments after arriving there, one of my favourite places in the whole of East Anglia. Not only are we looking at a…