30 September, 2007

September recipe: Sausage and apple ragout

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Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Acorns bouncing off my head as I cycle to the post office. An adolescent squirrel buryin...
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25 September, 2007

Origins of Northumbria: Dating Aethelferth’s annexation of Deira

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The English (‘Anglo-Saxon’) kingdom of Northumbria was constructed in the first half of the seventh century AD from two smaller kingdoms, De...
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07 September, 2007

Pause in posts

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The next post on this blog will be on or around Monday 24 September. See you all then.
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30 August, 2007

Kingdom of the Ark, by Lorraine Evans. Book review

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Edition reviewed: Simon and Schuster, 2000, ISBN 0-684-86064-3 Kingdom of the Ark is a work of narrative non-fiction, putting forward the t...
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27 August, 2007

August recipe: Plum Cake

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Plums have connotations of abundance and the good life. Little Jack Horner ‘pulled out a plum’, a particularly desirable appointment is ‘a...
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20 August, 2007

The Witch’s Cat

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The witch’s cat is as much a part of her traditional paraphernalia as her pointy hat and broomstick. Terry Pratchett’s Nanny Ogg wouldn’t b...
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14 August, 2007

The Greatest Knight, by Elizabeth Chadwick. Book review

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Edition reviewed, Time Warner, 2006, ISBN 0-7515-3660-1 Set in England and France in 1167-1194, The Greatest Knight tells the story of Will...
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