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Linda Acaster in Escape Into History

Feb 26, 2021

Sutton Hoo: Anglo-Saxon ‘Great Buckle’, gold with intricate woven decoration

The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial

Treasures of a British Anglo-Saxon king that illuminated Dark Age history…

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Linda Acaster in Escape Into History

Apr 5, 2021

Newgrange Neolithic Passage Tomb — a huge shallow-domed edifice, edges faced in white stone and grass-topped.

Deep into Newgrange Passage Tomb in Ireland’s ‘Valley of the Kings’

Stone-age peoples didn’t live in…

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Linda Acaster in Escape Into History

Jan 26, 2022

Part of Leeds Castle showing its reflection in the surrounding lake.

Leeds Castle — Six Royal Queens and An Heiress

“The beautiful Palace in Kent” — wrote a French…

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Linda Acaster in Escape Into History

Dec 4, 2021

3000 year old chalk hill figure of a white horse, Uffington, Oxfordshire, England

3,000 Year Old White Horse Of Uffington, England

An iconic geoglyph set in a sacred landscape.

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Linda Acaster in Escape Into History

Mar 11, 2021

Gainsborough Old Hall

A British medieval property which welcomed Vikings and Kings, and waved farewell…

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Linda Acaster in Escape Into History

Apr 30, 2021

Front view over courtyard of Jacobean manor house built in red brick during the 1620s

The Man Who Founded a US State and Lied About its Name

Kiplin Hall #1 — built for the glory of God in…

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Linda Acaster in Escape Into History

Apr 21, 2022

Man in white hard hat going down a safety ladder into Grime’s Graves

Grime’s Graves — Though Woden Was Never Here

Into a Neolithic Flint Mine — Hard hats at the ready!

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Linda Acaster in Escape Into History

Apr 30, 2021

Jacobean Manor house c1620 built of red brick with lake in front.

A Woman Born Into Decadence Whose Campaigning Zeal Saved Both Lives And Historic Houses

Linda Acaster in Escape Into History

Nov 28, 2023

Durrington Walls, Stonehenge landscape in Wiltshire. The ring in the grassland shows about half the size of the henge enclosure.

Stonehenge #3

Durrington Walls — The Land of the Living?

Come visit the people who…

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Linda Acaster in Escape Into History

Sep 15, 2023

Left: part of the Barley Barn; Right: the Wheat Barn.

800 Years a Barn — From Knights Templar to Modern Seedsman

The care of a farmer changes not a jot down…

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Escape Into History

Small Islands : Big History. The British Isles and its near neighbours pack an amazing amount of visible history into a small area. Sometimes it is layered and takes some sifting; often it stands defiant. Always it intrigues.

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