First and foremost of the material we deal with are issues of Place and Space, and how we experience them. This section includes phenomenology and psychogeography as ‘ways of seeing’.
Rosemary Pardoe’s article ‘The wolf that wasn’t’ in NE181 sparked some interesting correspondence, published in NE182. Below is the full text from Vita sancti Edmundi (Life of St Edmund) by Abbo of Fleury, translated into Old English by Ælfric around the year 1000. It describes the miraculous story of St Edmund’s head being guarded by […]
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This is an updated version of John Billingsley’s article in Northern Earth 181. A memory popped into mind some months ago as I was driving along a stretch of road near my home in West Yorkshire. It was an image of that stretch at some point in the early to mid/late 1990s when the roadside
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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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By Eric Fitch This article is a companion to Eric Fitch’s article ‘H.G. Wells and the megaliths’ in Northern Earth 180 (Summer 2025). Herbert George Wells (1866–1946) was best known for his seminal science fiction, but he was a polymath – as novelist, prophet and popular educator – who spanned the Victorian and the atomic
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The interpretation of prehistoric features as ritual sites and practices may distract attention from the ancient need for functional infrastructure. Roger B. Hutchins argues for one such case. Most NE readers, if few others, will be familiar with prehistoric stone rows. I became a guide for the Dartmoor National Park about 35 years ago, and
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By John E. Palmer, 2024 Springendal is a protected nature reserve near Hezingen, in the province of Twente in the Netherlands. In April 2019 two metal detectorists (1) searched on terrain belonging to Staatsbosbeheer(Forestry Commission) and found some gold coins which they were unable to interpret or date. After consultation they decided to duly report
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By Simon Crook And if you flung her headdress on her from under her highlows you’d wheeze whyse Salmonson set his seel on a hexengown – James Joyce, Finnegans Wake ‘an orangefiery shipload from the planet Alpha’ On 10 December 2023, 32 days into navigating a family bereavement, I learnt of a recently discovered Roman
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For Queen and Country The Eleanor Crosses are among the outstanding monuments of the Middle Ages. They represent one of the most developed of our ancient funeral routes, and embody a wide range of architectural style and innovation. They also carry a weight of symbolism drawn from the mythic aspirations of a mediaeval dynasty. John
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Victoria and Paul Morgan help raise Cheshire’s prehistoric profile INTRODUCTION Cheshire is not a county famed for it its prehistory. At a push the megaraks can only really name The Bridestones (the remains of a Neolithic long cairn near the town of Congleton), but even that is often listed as belonging to Staffordshire. The
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With tales of oak and mistletoe, holy wells and miraculous images, John Palmer takes us to meet the Virgin Mary in the old wetlands of Flanders Many of the houses lining the Veertien Bunderslaan, in Blaasveld, have a miniature wooden chapel attached, each containing an image representing the Virgin Mary; the lane leads towards
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