Black Dogs: The Wisht Hunt of Dartmoor
A guest post from Stephen on the nature of the Wild Hunts of Dartmoor. ‘The spectre pack which hunts over Dartmoor is called the “wish hounds” and the black “master” who follows the chase is no doubt the same who has left his mark on Wistman’s Wood’ – The...
The black dog of Peterloo
Guest post from Rosie Garland. A Manchester Encounter, or, The Black Dog of Peterloo From an unpublished and anonymous letter now in the collection of the Portico Library, Manchester. Typography dates it to the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Spelling and...
Black Dog tales: The Hound of St Austell
A guest post from Andrew Macdonald of Waveney Archaeology. Samuel Drew (1765-1833) was a self-taught man of letters; his special interest was metaphysics, which is perhaps why he is little known now. He was apprenticed to a shoemaker and gave the following account of...
9/11 – the years on
Guest post from Louisa Griffith-Jones. Sometimes you just stumble across a remarkable piece of writing. Louisa posted this earlier today. I read it standing at a bus-stop, a lump in my throat. She is a friend, someone I remember from gigs in the early 1980s at UEA...IW on Facebook
Exhibition is open again, 10 - 4 each day until Sunday at Hungate Medieval Art. Pop down. I'll be about all weekend and popping in and out during the week.
Image: Lakenhalle A composite of Ypres Cloth Hall made of postcards and photos dating from 1905, through the destruction and rebuilding up to the present day. Posters currently only available at the exhibition, at a discounted rate.
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Hundreds flock to ‘moving and poignant’ World War One exhibition
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A local landscape photographer has opened a new Norwich exhibition featuring photographs of the Western Front to mark the World War One Centenary.This turned up today at the exhibition. Thanks to Andy Haylett for bringing it in. I may have had something in my eye.