Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain

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In common with another reviewer, I found the ebook formatting dreadful, with the reference section for each chapter being clunky. Across the country Brook Advisory Centres were opening where unmarried women could go for contraceptive advice, while in parliament, the Latey Committee deliberated on the Age of Majority. It is descriptive and beautiful as it rises and falls, it shouts and whispers and it renovates with the power of conviction and truth. No dry academician, he is passionate about brin g ing London’s richly layered history to life in the most vivid way possible, revealing its hidden treasures and offering memorable perspectives on the present-day city.

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These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. I thoughts parts of this were excellent, particularly the chapters on Skara Brae on Orkney and Stanford in Norfolk. The location went through varying warm periods and cold ones, with the sea eventually claiming the town. The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.Dunwich - much lost to the sea from gradual coastal erosion after two “calamitous” sea storms in 1288 and 1328, including numerous ecclesiastical buildings and churches. This is the forgotten history of Britain's lost cities, ghost towns and vanished villages: our shadowlands. The idea of successive generations living in the same homes, cheek-by-jowl with their neighbours, was “positively revolutionary” in these islands. He is the founder of Unreal City Audio, which produces immersive tours of London as live events, podcasts and apps. If, like me, you look at old abandoned, ruined cottages and think ‘I wonder…’, then this is a book for you.

Shadowlands by Matthew Green review – Britain’s ghost places

He has appeared in documentaries on the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, and has written historical features for the Guardian and Financial Times. The Lord Mayor and Aldermen of Liverpool Corporation attend the grossly insensitive opening ceremony of Llyn Celyn at a tea party in a marquee overlooking the new reservoir. From an Orkney village engulfed in sand 5,000 years ago to a medieval city swept off a cliff and languishing in the depths of the North Sea, Britain is scarred with the haunting remains of places lost to memory.There was such a variety of places included in the book from places I’ve actually visited, such as Skara Brae on Orkney the, places I’ve heard of like St Kilda and places completely new to me like Wharram Percy in Yorkshire. The earth had been forced to give up her secrets, and what had lain concealed for millennia turned out to be among the oldest-built structures anywhere on the planet – older than the Egyptian pyramids, older than the temples of Mycenae, and older, certainly, than Stonehenge. Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. While full of fascinating facts (and a lot of pointless statistics) there is a vast amount of supposition.