Anthony Bennett
I'm interested in history, historical places, pubs and beer.
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Rural Pubs, Black Labradors and Far-Right Myths (opens the original)
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“This is one of the things I do stay awake at night about, and think about, and fear…“… the far Right deciding and determining what that (rural Britain) looks like. It’ll be a vision, a nostalgic vision of a Britain that never really existed.“It’ll be that warm ale, a black Labrador by your feet in a pub that doesn’t exist, and with symbolism of fox hunting all around them. It’ll be a very far-Right nostalgic vision of Britain that we don’t want to have, [that] never really existed.”<p style="te
The Quiet Regicide of Connecticut (opens the original)
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Yarmouth Suspension Bridge Disaster (opens the original)
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When Regicides Met Their Fate in Delft (opens the original)
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Around 9pm on Thursday 7th March 1662, three Englishmen were just ending an evening of chatting, drinking beer and smoking pipe tobacco, in the Nieuwe Kirk area of Delft. Thanks for reading Anthony Bennett! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<div class="
Wolves and the Liquidator (opens the original)
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Swearing isn’t a simple matter of social class. My parents are very working class, in a cor blimey Cockney way, and I’ve never heard them swear, nor any of my aunts and uncles, for that matter. And anyone who has been out with middle class Millennials will know that after a couple of Pinot Grigios, they can all swear like drunken navvies. And yet, this is a matter of social class.Thanks for reading Anthony Bennett! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<
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