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In the ongoing interests of trying harder. Writing on occulted landscapes, material occulture and all-round amateuring.
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Cecil Williamson’s Festival of Britain (opens the original)
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This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Festival of Britain, a watershed moment that arguably marked a shift in public consciousness away from the bleakness of the immediate post-war years towards the growing optimism of the 1950s. The festival itself was an act of civic necromancy, marking the centenary of the famous Great Exhibition of 1851. This gargantuan flex of Victorian empiric power showcased the cutting edge in cultural and technological achievements from the British colonies of the
Chester's Lost Mithraeum (opens the original)
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There’s a few further relevant bus-stops before we can conclude this exploration of Chester’s lost Mithraeum. Roughly four centuries after the Roman exit of the city, Edgar’s Field found itself the stage for one of the major mythic events in it’s history. In 973, following his coronation in Bath, Edgar the Pacific sailed to Chester and reputedly established his authority by having six other lesser kings symbolically row him from one side of the Dee to the other. The earliest reference to this co
Chester's Lost Mithraeum (opens the original)
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Aside from being the home of the celebrated Minerva Shrine, the parkland now known as Edgar’s Field also hides the memory, and perhaps remains, of several buildings. Though no longer extant, they appear in both artistic representations and maps of the city from the 16th century onwards(1) until their complete disappearance in the 18th century.(2) The origin and indeed location of these stoney spectres is presently unknown, and no dedicated archaeological investigation has taken place in nearly a
Rocky Horror - An Ongoing Initiation (opens the original)
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