UK Archive

  • Eat, Bray, Shove: Two Men’s Mimicry, Mockery and Mastication Across Northern England

    What would you get if the producers of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” combined “My Dinner with Andre ” and “Easy Rider” with some salacious food porn thrown in? Why, you’d have British director Michael Winterbottom’s latest Steve Coogan  and Rob Brydon semi-improvised vehicle, “The Trip,” that’s […]

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  • Stories and Stone

    Having arrived in London last week on an ordinary mid-week mid-morning, I exited the lofty frame of St Pancras International Station, onto Pentonville Road. Consulting the compass on my phone, I walked West first, the great art galleries near Trafalgar Square as my destination. The […]

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  • Glastonbury Tor

    When we lived in Bristol, we went a few times to the nearby and ancient town of Glastonbury, where, on top of a sharp and very prominent hill, a strange-looking tower stands alone. A mythology surrounds the ‘Tor’, and the whole town, connecting unseen worlds […]

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  • A Ride to Church – York

    This morning I got in my ‘ride’ (a pair of size 11 Mizuno running shoes), and went to church. If you’ve read some of my other posts and comments around the site, you may have guessed that I don’t attend a church at the moment. […]

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  • Happy ‘Day of Purity’, Everyone!

    Over on the Guardian website, an article tracks the history of Valentine’s Day, from an ancient Roman festival of sexual love, to the Christian Party of the UK‘s celebration of abstinence.

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  • Moses and the Rock

    Aaron Reeves is a doctoral student of Sociology, and the co-creator of 'Crumpets and Decaff', a publication and website that seeks to promote the production and exploration of British Mormon cultural products...

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