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		<title>Key Street: a personal journey of roots, routes and Jutes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is a longer account of a personal pilgrimage from London to Canterbury in August/September 2024, which I gave a version of as a talk at the 2024 Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography (a video is here). I have also written connected articles about the death of Thomas Becket and the last pilgrim to visit [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>A London literary drift</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 09:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;All the wonders lie within a stone’s-throw of King’s Cross Station.&#8221; – Arthur Machen, Far Off Things &#8220;I began now to appreciate the fact that if you set out, without a map, from your house at 36 Great Russell Street and walk for half an hour eastward or northward you are in fact in an [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>Harry Potter and the Viscera of Kittens</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2023 15:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back in July 2007, the author Will Self appeared on BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Today programme grumbling about what he termed the &#8220;cardboard&#8221; writing of J.K.Rowling and how adults shouldn&#8217;t read it. As a result I was bizarrely motivated to write a parody of Rowling in the style of Self (notorious for his pleonastic writing style), [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>In the footsteps of Celia Fiennes in York</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jun 2023 15:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This little photo story was originally published as a Twitter thread in June 2023. So in 1697, Celia Fiennes arrived solo in York on horseback as part of her unique tour of England. I followed in her footsteps around York Minster today. Join us! Words by Celia, pictures by me. #yorkminster #10tweetadventure “The Minster is [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>In search of St Dunstan: a London walk</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2023 13:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(Another walk originally published as a Twitter thread.) &#160; Amazingly it&#8217;s over a year since my last #10tweetadventure celebrating #pancrasday. So what better than tracking down another saint, this time more intimately associated with London. On St Dunstan&#8217;s Day, 19 May, I give you… #dunstanday 1 Dunstan (c.909-988) was a proper English (Saxon) saint. He [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>In search of St Pancras: a London walk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2022 13:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(An archive of a live Twitter thread from 2022.) &#160; Today I&#8217;m embarking on another London walking expedition… Join me on a 6-mile walk as I listen to the echoes of a Saxon-era cult, and learn about some literary legends, lost spas… and a walrus. I give you: #pancrasday Today, 12 May, is the feast [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>Around the World in Eight Hours</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Chapman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2022 11:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Below is the full thread of my mini-adventure on 29 April 2022, an analogue for Phileas Fogg&#8217;s famed voyage, but contained within central London. I&#8217;m truly grateful for the enthusiasm people showed for it! It&#8217;s 150 years this year since Jules Verne published Around the World in Eighty Days. Today I shall embark on my [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>The fellow that goes alone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2020 14:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kenneth Grahame is famous of course for writing The Wind in the Willows and a few other children&#8217;s books. But here is an essay about walking alone that he wrote for the St Edward&#8217;s School Chronicle in 1913.1 Since then, this has only ever been published in Peter Green&#8217;s 1959 biography of Grahame, and a [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>Shaking spears at each other</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[To question, or not to question. That is to be&#8230; A recent conversation at LiveJournal prompted me to revisit the whole &#8216;authorship of Shakespeare&#8217;s works&#8217; malarkey. As I commented there, I had always been firmly convinced that the Man from Stratford wrote the plays, and found things such as Baconian ciphers preposterous (in fact, I [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>Address to Burns</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Burns Night tonight. I&#8217;ve dredged this up from my files for 2002: Address to Burns Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face Great poet o’the chieftain race Aboon them a’ ye tak your place: Wordsworth, Shak’speare, Scott. Yon Sassenachs cannae cut your pace – Ah love them no’ a jot. In Alloway ye wis a [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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