Viking longboats

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Apr 11, 2021

anniversaries, art, battles, buildings, religion

Archbishop of Canterbury, Battle Abbey, Battle of Fulford, Battle of Hastings, Bayeux Tapestry, Harald Hardrada, Harold II, Odo Bishop of Bayeux, Peregrinations, Rome, St. Edward the Confessor, Stigand, Trajan’s Column, Viking longboats, William I, Yorkshire

… on the Bayeux Tapestry are featured in this excellent journal, Peregrinations by the International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art. The first relevant article, which also discusses Viking longboats and the Battle of Fulford, earlier in 1066, starts on (pdf) page 196. The second starting on page 238 compares the Tapestry with Trajan’s…
Susan Calman’s Secret Scotland

Feb 16, 2020

buildings, television reviews

Arran, Auld Lang Syne, Ayrshire, Balmoral, Burns, Cairngorns, cannon, Channel Five, chicken tikka masali, DC Comics, Dumfries, Dundee, Dunlop cheese, Dunrobin, Dunure Castle, Edinburgh Castle, Glasgow, Glasgow Subway, Greenyards, Irn Bru, J.M. Barrie, John O’Groats, lighthouses, Loch Ness, making glass, Melrose, music halls, Orkneys, Perthshire, Rose Reilly, Scone Palace, Scotland, seaweed, shearing, Skye, smugglers’ tunnels, Stirling, Susan Calman, Tam O’Shanter, tree planting, Viking longboats

This excellent programme, now on its second series, has seen the diminutive Glaswegian comedienne visit parts of Scotland that she had not previously, “behind the scenes” areas or, in the case of the Borders, driven straight through to work in England. Last year, Calman visited places like Edinburgh Castle (left), Stirling (to fry fish, among…

Viking longboats

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Susan Calman’s Secret Scotland