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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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The Black Lives Matter campaign has seen people demonstrating against the presence of historic statues in cities across the world...
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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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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 explores St John’s Foundation, one of the UK’s oldest almshouse charities, and discovers a medieval site that...
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There are over 100 commemorative plaques in Bath and they document some of the notable men and women who once...
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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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While Bath is defined by the towering names with which it has become associated – figures such as Bladud, Beau...
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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 investigates how in 19th-century Bath, prostitution – often described as ‘the oldest trade in the world’ –...
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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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40 years ago volunteers began a ground-breaking project to link Bath and Bristol with a cycle path. Jess Connett gets...