Wessex Worthies: Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill is one of the most famous, and most controversial, sons of Oxfordshire. Once lionised as a national hero, his legacy has been reassessed in recent years. Younger generations…
Devolution Is Not Regionalism
As a party which places devolution at the core of our identity, we should be delighted that the government has announced a devolution bill as part of the king's speech,…
A Night To Remember
“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive / But to be young was very heaven!” Wordsworth’s ardour for the French Revolution cooled in the light of experience. Labour…
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Wessex In Fiction: The Man On The Moor
The Man On The Moor is a 2004 novel by John Van Der Kiste, set on Dartmoor on the eve of the First World War. George Stephens, an office clerk…
Wessex Attractions: Sir Bevil Grenville’s Monument
Sir Bevil Grenville (1596-1643) was a Cornish nobleman who was one of the leaders of the royalist Western Army during the English Civil War. He led 1500 Cornish pikemen at…
Wessex in Fiction: Escape
Escape was a 1928 play by John Galsworthy, best known as the author of The Forsyte Saga. It tells of World War 1 veteran Captain Matt Denant, who in trying…
Wessex In Fiction: The Oxford Murders
The Oxford Murders is the English-language title of the 2003 novel Crimenes Imperceptibiles (literally Imperceptible Crimes) by the Argentinian novelist and mathematician Guillermo Martinez. It was subsequently adapted into a…
Wessex Attractions: Three Choirs Vineyard
Three Choirs Vineyard in Newent, Gloucestershire, is one of the longest-established large-scale commercial vineyards operating in Wessex today. It was founded in 1973, just as Britain was emerging from a…
Wessex Attractions: Bembridge Fort
Bembridge Fort, on the Isle of Wight, is an example of what is known as a Palmerston folly. Ordered by Lord Palmerston, prime minister from 1855 to 1858, and again…
Essential Wessex: The Earliest Human Settlements
Kents Cavern, a mile and a half northeast of Torquay, is notable for being the site of a fossilised human upper jawbone which has been radiocarbon dated to the Upper…
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