The picture shows a section of a magnificent life-size representation of King Athelstan created by award-winning contemporary embroiderer, Jacky Puzey, for Kingston-upon-Thames. This is part of the ‘Seven Kings’ set of vividly embroidered panels, inspired by this year being the 1100th anniversary of the crowning of King Athelstan there in in 925, with Kingston also […]
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This memorial may not mean much to those from Britain, but is fundamental to Albanians. For them, Skanderbeg, as we know him, is the archetypal national hero. His main claim to fame rests on his success in limiting Ottoman expansion in the Balkans in the 15th century. But with the fame comes the myth, as
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History can help us make sense of traditions that have their roots in the past but have become something rather different over the ages. And this massive spider in a small front garden in Whitstable on the Kent coast got me thinking about why we associate spiders with Halloween. The name itself is a contraction
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