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Category Archive: History

A Dublin family photo

Take a look at the photograph: two kids stare upwards, mesmerised it seems by who knows what, one […]

August 24, 2026 Cookson, Culture, Dublin, History, Ireland, Spender

Doggo Tails 2: St Just, Cornwall

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It was still March, hardly the best time to take off to the far reaches of the far […]

September 2, 2025 History, Travel, Travels with Doggo

Doggo Tails 1: Cambernon, Normandy

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It’s not fair to call Doggo a snob but he knows what he likes. Two walks a day […]

August 26, 2025 France, History, Spender, Travel, Travels with Doggo

The Final Battle You Probably Never Heard Of

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Call me old-fashioned but for the last 50-something years of my life, I had always thought that the […]

May 26, 2019 Georgia, History

Sport in Art in Ancient Greece

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Heinrich is a special kind of guide. A trained archaeologist with the appropriate eye for detail and a […]

February 19, 2019 Culture, Greece, Greek sporting legends, History, Olympics, Running, Sport

Kissing the feet of Leonidas

When a runner completes the 246-kilometre Spartathlon he or she earns a rare privilege. A last stretch of […]

February 5, 2019 Culture, Film, Greece, History, Spartathlon, Sport

The House that Ubu Built

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For the last 12 months I have been getting stressed. About a house. Not my house you understand, […]

January 16, 2019 Corbeil-Essonnes, Culture, France, History, Sport

The Spender Oath

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Hardly a day goes by without President Trump launching an attack on the press. Not just the individuals […]

August 18, 2018 History, Spender

The Sale of the Century

The guide at the National Gallery in London wasn’t entirely sure where I might find Rubens. She furrowed […]

February 22, 2018 Culture, History, Spender

The Corbeil Crash of ’44

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At six o’clock in the evening on June 8, a small crowd gathers by a wall in the […]

June 7, 2017 France, History

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