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Margaret Adkins Writing
Oct 6, 20225 min read
On this day, 1863, England & Wales were shaken by 'a mysterious and alarming convulsion of nature.'
Individual accounts of an earthquake affecting midland and western counties of Britain in the early hours of Tuesday, 6th October, 1863,...
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Margaret Adkins Writing
May 6, 202210 min read
Telling the Bees | Stories, Superstitions and Gossip in Newspapers Written for our Ancestors
A scrapbook of selected stories, superstitions, and gossip that featured in historical British newspapers. A window on the everyday...
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Margaret Adkins Writing
Jan 10, 20213 min read
Winter lockdown: the hermit's hut and the significance of lamplight in forced isolation
Winter encourages us to be creaturely: to retreat from the elements and inhabit interior space. In darkness there are reasons to create ligh
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