Blogs about United Kingdom

This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome brand new Scottish sports paper the Sporting Post to our collection, as we welcome a whopping 417,546 brand new pages in total. Meanwhile, from Belfast …

Sunday 19th May 2024 Keith Shayshutt has just published another book about buses in the south west. This time he’s turned his forensic investigative powers to examine the turbulent 1978-1982 period when Western National, like …

The Conservative MP for Great Grimsby adds that she is a "traditional, northern Conservative" and calls on the Government get more people off welfare and into work "to mobolise the British population." The post “Reform …

A Journey to Avebury is the name of a short silent film made by Derek Jarman made in 1971. Shot in wobbly Super 8, and saturated with burnt orange hues, it has an otherworldly eldritch …

A place 'so secure that all the forces in Britain shall not find him out.' But could we find it?

How to read dense and complex regulatory consultation documents which, either accidentally or deliberately, break the internet.

When I was preparing the Post about the Town Hall, I started to write about manorial records, and their value in local history. But this was breaking up the Town Hall story too much, and …

Th’Owd Tithe Barn is a popular pub located on the Lancaster Canal, with narrowboats moored alongside it in Garstang Basin. Its name suggests that it was a place for collecting tithes, these being a tenth …

Star Wars Day, 2024 I once came across a quote in a history book which I have never been able to re-find. It was from an acquaintance of I think Lord Randolph Churchill (Winston’s father), …

I was late. The minibus was already at the stop. I did something I very rarely do and broke into a run. I was the last one there. I was shown into a minibus that, …

As I wandered around Kirkdale last week it occurred to me that I was wasting the fine weather, and it was time to do some more out of the way pubs. So today I began …

Who is Iain Sinclair, and where did he come from? That’s what people in London wanted to know in the early 1970s, east of Liverpool Street Station. His formative years were gradually disclosed in instalments …

Masked Aberdeen rapper M2 is ready to make waves with the upcoming release of his second single, Local Shop The post Aberdeen rapper M2 ready to drop new track ‘Local Shop’ appeared first on POST …

February 2023 This was my first new coastal walk of 2023 although I was only here for the weekend. If I was in any doubt as to whether it was the right decision to walk …

The guard scanned my e-ticket. He looked at the results. "You've come all the way from Liverpool to go to Bromsgrove?""Yeah," I smiled."Never mind." He walked away.Bromsgrove started well enough. It got a new station …

I end up on the infamous A9, and eat Cullen Skink beside a harbour. Continue reading →

In 1972, the government drew up plans to construct a deportation facility off the coast of Ireland that could house as many as 70 million people - the entire population of the UK, if need …

❚ WHETHER YOU LIKE ABBA’s SONGS or not, the scale of the West-End musical MAMMA MIA!’s success is staggering. Over 25 years it has been seen by 70 million people in 450 cities across the …

A couple of weeks back I wrote about whether or not the time had come for Alliance to adopt a constitutional position (TL;DR – it hasn’t). As is typical of articles that touch on the …

Here follows the next episode of our Brittany holiday. I thought I would include here an example of Breton folk music just so you can get an idea of the kind of music we heard …