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A rebellious baker, 7,000 toothbrushes, and a giant inflatable moon: Daisy Game takes a guided tour of Bath Abbey, and...
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Andrew Swift searches through his archive to find images of Christmastide in previous eras. Chickens and turkeys and other birds...
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Every Christmastide deserves a good ghost story. So we asked Dr Lynch of Bath Ghost Tours to tell us one associated with Bath (he knows them all, being deceased), based on the real-life narrative of two famous star-crossed lovers. Bath has, as everyone knows, a rich and varied history, dating...
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Georgette McCready takes a look at the ancient Roman festival of Saturnalia and finds links with modern-day Christmas festivities –...
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There is a burial ground in Wells Road, Bath where 3,182 bodies were buried between 1858 and 1899 in unmarked...
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Words by Duncan Campbell Walking down Milsom Street, looking up, you will have noticed the handsomely carved Royal Coat of Arms. This Royal badge is ubiquitous, on our tax demands, civic buildings, above shop doors, on lamp posts and on all our notes and coins. We all know about the...
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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...
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The Black Lives Matter campaign has seen people demonstrating against the presence of historic statues in cities across the world where the individuals had connections with slavery. Emma Clegg investigates and discovers that the slave trade is ingrained in our urban landscapes and our cultural heritage, including those of Bath...
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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...
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The wartime and the subsequent peacetime link between Bath and one of its twin cities, Alkmaar in the Netherlands, is taken up in a fascinating new book, The Remarkable Journey of Mr Prins by Aletta Stevens, which is as much a local tale as a European one, says Simon Horsford...