Chuck Berry - Promised Land: rock and roll topography
Chuck Berry at his topographical best, using tight wit and pathos to describe an epic journey by bus, train and aeroplane from Virginia to California in 'Promised Land':I left my home in Norfolk...
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Take the long road and walk it
Mapped above is the route of a week long walk I will be undertaking in June, linking up the estate landscapes and medieval route-ways of the three case studies of my PhD research: Llanthony Priory,...
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Ben Myers - The Gallows Pole: Once upon a time in the West Riding
The arresting cover of Ben Myers' sixth novel is a statement of intent for the work inside: historical fiction with danger and harshness and radicalism foregrounded; a bit punk rock, a bit psychedelic,...
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PhD landscape walk - walking the ghost topography of Cwmbran new town
This is a description of one of a series of landscape walks through my PhD case study areas. Here the walk navigates a route around the post-war planned new town of Cwmbran in south-east Wales,...
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Pathways through long winter days until bright Phoebus shines down again
A quick ramble here through an assemblage of mid-winter cultural highlights. If record shops are a species indicator of a civilised polis (which they surely are), then it was good to have affirmation...
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New substantive post on the way soon, an archaeology of walking; in the meantime here's a musical interlude, some post-Easter pagan and animist sounds.Trembling Bells - Christ's Entry Into GovanGoat -...
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On Arcadia
Hotfoot from viewing new documentary film Arcadia, some initial thoughts on what seems quite a zeitgeist-y piece of work for those in the landscape/ place bubble.Directed by Paul Wright, the film is...
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The topographical legacy of the medieval monastery: evolving perceptions and...
This post is an abridged version of the discussion chapter framed around the core research questions of my recently submitted PhD thesis, examining a hypothesis that the medieval monastery, over...
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The path to the monastery: monastic communication networks in the southern...
The Version of Record of this Author's Manuscript has been published and is available in Landscape History 2019 (40.1, pp 59-70) http://www.tandfonline.com DOI: 10.1080/01433768.2019.1600944...
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Brief thoughts on a PhD journey completed
Well its done. I've been awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy in Archaeology.My research has ranged over landscape archaeology, landscape history, monasticism, cultural geography, psychogeography,...
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Gardens where we feel secure
Glass half-full, the Covid-19 restrictions on movement coinciding with the first burst of spring present an opportunity to inhabit the topography of your own garden more profoundly than in normal...
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Walking back through time: a landscape history of pathways
For a while now I have been contemplating researching a comprehensive landscape history of paths, or at least the pathways of Britain. Paths, such an intrinsic topographical element, both a symbolic...
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Alternative political cartography: a more rational union
Most of this piece was written in 2017 (probably after another soul-destroying election result) but left in draft and I just came across it again. Depressingly, it still resonates; only more so. Some...
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