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86Anglo-Saxon History
The Anglo Saxon period is the oldest known period of time that had a complex culture with stable government, art, and a fairly large amount of literature. Many people believe that the culture then...
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79"Bringing in the May" - the history and culture of the traditional English May Day
May Day celebrations in England have a rich and diverse history. Strands of the festivals come from different pagan, polytheistic, and Christian traditions, all of which became mixed together over the years. ...
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72The Ley-Lines and Lost-Past of North Kent part 14 Sussex
While libra, the previous sign, governed the hours from 6 to 8 in the evening, signifying the approach of the end of the day, it is in this sign, scorpio, that we actually enter the night side, for the sun...
63Crazy for a good Charity
Lady Godiva Statue Lady Godiva Painting Woman being auction for charity Army Wife posing nude for Charity Hooter girls washing cars for charity Many laws and fees that don’t want to be paid especially when...
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74Charlemagne in a Nutshell
The Franks were a Germanic tribe spread throughout Gaul and central Europe east of the Rhine River. They had converted from the Norse religion to Catholicism and were ruled by the Merovingian Dynasty. When...
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72Witches and Witchcraft - Beliefs and Traditions
General Beliefs and Practices Today’s popular thinking classes the witch as a figure of diverse fantasy. In the main, a witch is considered to be female with images ranging from the scary Wicked Witch of...
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70One Nation Under the Groove: Modern Media as the Tower of Babel
"As our proliferating technologies have created a whole series of new environments, men have become aware of the arts as "anti-environments" or "counter-environments" that provide us with the means of...
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88On the First Day of Christmas
Why a partridge in a pear tree? A partridge is not a small bird that can be easily placed in a cage in the kitchen. And the song pre-dates dwarf fruit trees so we are talking about a good sized tree which...
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73Fennel
Fennel has a distinctive taste of aniseed. It is a perennial herb which grows wild along the Mediterranean, but it is also cultivated throughout Europe and North America. The plant, which grows to about 6 ft (2 m), looks rather similar to dill, with fine bright green leaves which mature to a darker green later in the season.
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91The Ley-Lines and Lost-Past of North Kent part 1 Whitstable
WHITSTABLE'S POWER Read anything about Whitstable and I can guarantee that somewhere in that first paragraph will be the words 'unique,' 'atmospheric,' 'quiet' and 'small,' or variations on those themes. To...
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