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BBC – Cult Television – to close 15 July

The BBC is to close their hugely popular Cult Television site on July 15 http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/news/cult/2005/06/24/20186.shtml The BBC has decided -…

19 years ago

The Blue Boar and The Fox, Chipping Norton

Frontage The Stable Room Blue Boar Pub, 1 Goddards Lane, Chipping Norton https://www.blueboarpub.co.uk I like pubs, and here are some good ones…

20 years ago

The Falkland Arms

http://www.raf-upper-heyford.org/Falkland_Arms.jpg https://www.falklandarms.co.uk A Wadworth pub in the picturesque Cotswold village of Great Tew. once beloved now inhabited by the uber…

20 years ago

Halifax Gibbet Capital Punishment in Yorkshire

http://www.kidzworld.com/site/p456.htm The Halifax Gibbet in Yorkshire What is the Halifax Gibbet?The Halifax Gibbet was a machine like a guillotine that…

20 years ago

The Halifax Gibbet

In memory of: 1286 John of Dalton15th January 1539 Charles Haworth20th March 1541 Richard Beverley of Sowerby1st January 1542 Unidentified…

20 years ago

British National Party: Fascists a la Mosley

http://www.bnp.org.uk/ General Election 2005: Fascists a la Mosley. Update: That link still works but I don't like the idea of…

20 years ago

The Liberal Democrats – Official Website

http://www.libdems.org.uk/ 2005 UK General Election Summary: Much higher taxes, even bigger government, giving the right to vote to paedophiles in…

20 years ago

Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/ Update: Unfortunately, the more gruesome and macabre exhibits have been removed. It's understandable but regrettable when history is censored…

20 years ago

The Castle Inn – a Hook Norton pub

Castle Inn,Edgehill Banbury OxonOX15 6DJ http://www.hooknortonbrewery.co.uk/downloads/desktop/castle_640x480.jpg Update: https://www.hooky.co.uk/our_pubs/castle-inn-in-edgehill/ Recommended. They serve a nice pint of Hooky. Glad to see that Hook Norton…

20 years ago

The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1642 – 1658

Cromwell at Marston Moor, by Victorian artist Ernest Crofts http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/war/ Update: Original no longer accessible so here's an alternative full…

20 years ago

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