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Gave my talk on the River Hull last Wednesday 10 – 11 am at Hull History Centre as part of an extended programme arranged by Hull Civic Soc. for the national Heritage Weekend and to compliment Hull’s City of Culture status this year. More attenders than I had expected. For Barton’s contribution to the national […]

Today was  global day of action against the transport of live farm animals, particularly the ‘long-distance transport’. The current government have indicated some sympathy with this objective and in the past claimed that it was the E.C.’s that allowed ‘long-distance’ transport to continue (context of Brexit). In fact DEFRA publish detailed regulations regarding the transport

I have very few ‘ornaments’ but one of the few is a little furry elephant figure sent me by the World Wildlife Fund as a proportion of my monthly subscription goes to benefit the welfare of the elephant population of south-east Asia. A written statement by Claire Morgan, an artist who I have never met,

Independent of one’s own religious beliefs the history of the Christian faith is central to the history of the British nation state (and, of course, many other countries too). Its buildings, from the majestic to the rustic are all fascinating sources of historical evidence and often reflecting in their very fabric the history of their

Recently a friend, sceptical of my non-scientist interest in science, asked ‘What of culture’? To answer I have to set down my current opinions on both culture and beliefs. The real god is the forces of Nature that have dictated the development of the Universe and the history of planet Earth. Traditional religions are the

Following the death of my sister on 15th November 2008 – see Doris Clarke, A Life in Publications – I had a commemorative bench installed on a grassy area near the village pond (like the one above), this along with two other people whose relatives had recently died. Greta, my half-sister, had died one month earlier