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Posts

• Bars and stripes at the checkout
• Clashes over carbon in Cumbria
• When east met west on the Silk Road
• Pause and effect in punctuation
• Fanny Burney’s breast cancer
• Yew — symbol of death and life
• A well-loved high street icon
• Edgar Allan Poe, man of mystery
• St Anthony of Egypt, the hermit of hope
• Founder of modern anthropology
• Abram Lyle and his Midas touch
• Sir Richard Doll and the deadly habit
• Picture Post: innovative journalism
• A motor engineer extraordinaire
• Edward Tyson and the “chain of being”
• Remembering the flying Scotsman
• Dutch barns and tin tabernacles
• The many virtues of the stinging nettle
• The curious fifth element of taste
• An essentially English humour
• Half a millennium of ceiling splendour
• The Fourdriniers’ paper machine
• The fiery orator behind the NHS
• A true master of geographical research