St Ealdhelm’s Day 2015: Salisbury’s Chequers
This article originally appeared in Wessex Chronicle Volume 16, Issue 2 (Summer 2015) Jim Gunter’s annual tour for St Ealdhelm’s Day this year visited Salisbury. Jim’s notes for the our…
Wiring Wessex
Note: This article originally appeared in Wessex Chronicle Volume 14, Issue 3 (Autumn 2013) “Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country, since industry cannot be developed…
Review: Time’s Anvil by Richard Morris (Phoenix, 2013)
This review originally appeared in Wessex Chronicle volume 16, issue 3 (Autumn 2015) In part, this book is the autobiography of an English archæologist. In part, it’s a history of…
British Europe
This article originally appeared in Wessex Chronicle Volume 17, Issue 1 (Spring 2016) Wessex Society’s aims, as set out in our constitution, include “promoting Wessex as a cultural community within…
Review: Broadchurch Season 2
This review originally appeared in Wessex Chronicle Volume 16, Issue 1 (Spring 2015) Broadchurch returned this year for a second series. The first was always going to be a tough…
Interview: Seif El Rashidi
This interview originally apperared in the Wessex Chronicle volume, 16, issue 4 (Winter 2015-16) Seif El Rashidi is the Magna Carta Programme Manager at Salisbury Cathedral. Raised in Egypt, where…
The English Love of Nature
This article originally appeared in the Wessex Chronicle volume 15, issue 3 (autumn 2014). The following printed item – labelled ‘MALMS Whitsuntide 1918’ – was found pasted in the visitors’…
Wessex Aviation Industry, by Mike Phipp (Amberley Publishing, 2011)
This review originally appeared in Wessex Chronicle volume 14, issue 2 (summer 2013) Mike Phipp has been watching planes come and go at Bournemouth’s airport since the1960s, so is well-placed…
All Greek To Us
This article originally appeared in Wessex Chronicle volume 13, issue 1 (spring 2012) The Olympic Games are a Greek invention and an English re-invention. Much Wenlock in Shropshire gets the…