Archive for March, 2014

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  A History of York in 100 pictures 15: Patrick Pool

  Today, Patrick Pool is barely more than a lane, a shortcut to the market, but in the medieval period it was a much longer street stretching into what is now Swinegate.  As so often, the […]

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  Rosemary: to make a man merry

  We usually associate rosemary with remembrance, and it had this meaning in early modern England too, when sprigs of rosemary were  dropped into graves.  But it also signified fidelity and  played an important role in weddings. […]

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  Covers, here and there

  I was in Paris on 13th February to mark the launch of La nuit n’oubliera pas, the general paperback edition of Time’s Echo in French.  It was a great occasion, and I had the pleasure […]

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