Friday, December 9th, 2022

2022/147: Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain — Matthew Green
These are Winchelsea’s ghost streets. The sight of the seven-hundred-year-old New Gate marooned at the southern end of the old town makes the soul quiver; there it stands forlorn, a stranded portal to a lost world. [p. 110]

In the years after the Brexit referendum and Trump's ascent, Green's life was changed by personal losses. He became 'determined to discover how [the] country had been shaped by absences', and set out to explore eight 'lost' settlements in Great Britain, from the Neolithic settlement Skara Brae, abandoned around 2500BC, to Capel Celyn, levelled and flooded to create a reservoir in 1965.Read more... )

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