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Sunday, 6 September 2015
Airspeed Ltd, York, due to be demolished
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I was in York today and thought I’d grab the opportunity to photograph a building used by Airspeed in the 1930’s for the construction of...
Saturday, 1 August 2015
Septimius Severus' British campaigns
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Coins commemorating the British victories of Septimius Severus and his sons, Caracalla and Geta In 208 Septimius Severus travelled ...
Monday, 25 May 2015
William of Hainaut, Bishop of Cambrai
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Sterling, William of Hainaut, Bishop of Cambrai, c. 1292-96, Mayhew 87-8 During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the English ...
Thursday, 26 February 2015
Thoth as a seated baboon
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One of my few Egyptian antiquities is this late dynastic faience amulet of Thoth in the form of a seated baboon. Thoth's roles in Egyp...
Sunday, 8 February 2015
William de Ros, Hob Moor in York and the Magna Carta
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On a very sunny Sunday in early February I’ve just walked from Woodthorpe in the suburbs into York across Hob Moor. Hob Moor is one of ...
Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Ophelia
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In an uncanny act of synchronicity Peter Hammill's Ophelia was playing in my ears as I walked past the statue of John Everett Millais...
Wednesday, 21 May 2014
The Percy memorial, Bramham Moor
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Having driven past it on a daily basis I finally took a photo of the remnants of a monument that marks where Henry Percy fell at t...
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