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Markers for Roundhouse, Palisade and Excavated Defensive Ditch for Mellor Iron Age Hillfort, Stockport; courtesy of thesilicontribesman on tumblr for #HillfortsWednesday @Durotrigesdig @DuroDigDiaries
Markers for Roundhouse, Palisade and Excavated Defensive Ditch for Mellor Iron Age Hillfort, Stockport
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My own patio is starting to look a bit like this!
Italian Courtyard, Fyodor Bronnikov
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Hoping to visit this site once lockdown is done and dusted!
'The Cop Stone' Prehistoric Standing Stone, Moor Divock, nr. Askham, Cumbria.
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March Worm Moon #fullmoon #fullmoonvibes🌕✨ #supermoon (at Durham, Durham) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9iaDmopQd3/?igshid=jpdpche8nx90
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"O, you and I have heard our fathers say,
There was a Brutus once that would have brookt
Th'eternal devil to keep his state in Rome
As easily as a king." 'The Tragedie of Julius Cæsar', Act 1, Scene 2. #ShakespeareSunday
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Late Afternoon at St. Nicholas Church #durhamcity #durhamcathedral #countydurham (at Durham, Durham) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9CaBZwp0Jh/?igshid=l72hskipe2kb
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Sundown at Ye Olde Elm Tree #durham #durhamcity #countydurham (at Durham, Durham) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8op3rSJ8Qd/?igshid=5dtgifq4lfr4
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Moonrise from Framwellgate Bridge #durhamcity #durham #countydurham (at Durham, Durham) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8UJaR7p-xL/?igshid=1cihcu0xnwmki
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Charles Stuart 'that Man of Blood'!
Charles Stuart ‘that Man of Blood’!
Contemporary German print of the execution of Charles I outside the Banqueting House. Based on the earliest European depiction of the execution Wikimedia Commons Licence
The execution of King Charles I on 30th January 1649 was perhaps the singlemost revolutionary actto have taken place on English soil since the Norman Conquest of 1066. The last time an English monarch had been deposed, apart from…
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#Cromwell#Execution of King Charles I#Issac Dorislaus#King Charles I#Monarchy#New Model Army#Parliament#Parliamentary Commonwealth#Roman Law#Roman Republic#Trial of King Charles I
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Impeachment! A World Turned Upside Down?
Impeachment! A World Turned Upside Down?
A plate depicting the Trial of Charles I in January 1649, from John Nalson’s “Record of the Trial of Charles I’ Attribution: Wikimedia Commons
With Donald Trump about to join Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon and Andrew Johnson as only the fourth President in the history of the United States to face an impeachment trial, it is perhaps unsruprising that few in America and even fewer in England…
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#Army Council#Benjamin Franklin#Donald Trump#Impeachment#Impeachment Trial#John Bradshaw#John Phelps#King Charles I#Oliver Cromwell#Rump Parliament#Thomas Jefferson#Trial of King Charles I
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First Full Moon of the Decade! #fullmoonvibes🌕✨ #fullmoon (at Durham, Durham) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7KITmTJo29/?igshid=1hbpsvdka1jin
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The Forest of Dean Riots and the Loughton Leveller
The Forest of Dean Riots and the Loughton Leveller
Public Notice attributed to Warren James, leader of the Forest of Dean Rioters Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)
In an earlier post on this blog we looked at the celebrated ‘Charter of the Forest’, described by the organizers of ‘The New Putney Debates‘ as ‘a companion document to the better-known Magna Carta’, first enacted in November 2017, and a major influence upon the Digger and Leveller…
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#Beating of the Bounds#Charter of the Forest#Custom Law and Common Right#Diggers#Epping Forest#Forest of Dean#Forest of Dean Riots#Levellers#Magna Carta#New Forest#New Forest Commoners#Thomas Willingale#Warren James
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Winter Sun #winter #winterwonderland #durham #countydurham (at Durham, Durham) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6s2E09Jhvx/?igshid=1u7785455purb
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Frosty morning landscape out along the railway path to Bishop Auckland. #winter #winterwonderland #frosty #frozen (at Willington, Durham, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6Nsa8Yp-E_/?igshid=10tvk78p5nq5x
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Oak Moon......The last Full Moon before Christmas....... #oakmoon #fullmoon #fullmoonvibes🌕✨ (at Durham, Durham) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5_TxL0JTMw/?igshid=7nqkb4fx1q7
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Frost Giants!
A Winter Invocation by Rupert Ferguson.
Frost Giants,
Jötnar,
Children of Ymir!
Your deeds echo down the ages,
In the poetry of the Skalds!
Frost Giants,
Jötnar,
Children of Ymir!
Your Father, spawn of ice floes,
In Élivágar of Ginnungagap!
Frost Giants,
Jötnar,
Dwellers in Jötunheimr!
Darkest, most foreboding,
Of all the Nine Worlds!
Frost Giants,
Jötnar,
Children of Ymir!
Dwellers in that place,
Where Winters never cease!
Rupert Ferguson is a writer, published author, journalist and filmmaker. His bardic ancestors include the Clan MacVurich Hereditary Bards to the Chiefs of Clanranald.
Copyright Rupert Ferguson 2018.
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The child Ymir Suckling the Cow Audhumla by Nicolai Abildgaard (1743-1809)
The primordial Norse God Ymir would eventually father the Frost Giants or Jötnar in the Élivágar or Ice Floes of Ginnungagap!
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