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Words by Duncan Campbell Walking down Milsom Street, looking up, you will have noticed the handsomely carved Royal Coat of...
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Peter Davenport has spent 40 years working as an archaeologist in and around Bath and has been involved in some...
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You might not yet know his name, but the intellectual and scientific accomplishments of Adelard of Bath make him one of our city’s great citizens. Ruby Bosanquet investigates the history and legacy of the man known as the first English scientist Jane Austen, John Wood the elder and the Wife...
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The Black Lives Matter campaign has seen people demonstrating against the presence of historic statues in cities across the world...
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While Bath is defined by the towering names with which it has become associated – figures such as Bladud, Beau...
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In a city with a history like Bath, it’s not surprising that there might be a few spooky encounters here and there… Historian Catherine Pitt takes a look at recent ghost sightings in Bath – and asks, can we really see dead people? Whether or not you’re a believer, these...
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The wartime and the subsequent peacetime link between Bath and one of its twin cities, Alkmaar in the Netherlands, is...
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Historian Catherine Pitt explores the hair-raising antics of Georgian Bath If we could turn the clock as far back as...
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Historian Catherine Pitt investigates how in 19th-century Bath, prostitution – often described as ‘the oldest trade in the world’ – was dealt with in St James’ parish by one very determined priest The Church of St James by SouthGate no longer exists. Hit by a Luftwaffe bomb in 1942, the...
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Historian Catherine Pitt explores St John’s Foundation, one of the UK’s oldest almshouse charities, and discovers a medieval site that...
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With its distinctive trefoil shape, Midford Castle is a distinctive mark on the South Stoke landscape – Catherine Pitt investigates...
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There are over 100 commemorative plaques in Bath and they document some of the notable men and women who once lived in the city, says Betty Suchar, chair of management of The Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Bath has always attracted the great names of their day. And it...