Peter Naldrett is the author of a new book called Spooky Britain and here, for the first time, he tells the story of his own experience that inspired his nationwide hunt for the eerie and mysterious. Everybody loves a good ghost story, right? I certainly did and at university read Edgar Allan Poe and Charles […]
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This article was first published in NE175, March 2024. Is the daisy wheel always a protective sign? Anthea Hawdon suggests another interpretation In 1686 the antiquarian and Fellow of the Royal Society, Robert Plot, described a carved perpetual calendar in his Natural History of Staffordshire.1 This wooden almanac marked each saint’s day with a symbol
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Rob Stepney’s republication of a classic historical novel was accompanied by some remarkable coincidences Shakespeare, in Henry IV part I, has the Welsh rebel chieftain Owain Glyndŵr describe himself as ‘not in the roll of common men’. ‘At my nativity, the front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,’ he claims. His supernatural powers seemed
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