Landscapism

A Journey to Avebury  - an early Derek Jarman Super 8 film from 1971 (via You Tube). Another addition to the hippy-pagan-folk landscape...

Below are two images that appear to be starkly different; one in a bucolic setting, the other concrete and urban. They are in fact the same ...

Source:  landofmaps How the world would look if the land masses and oceans were inverted Here are some strikingly idiosyncratic and...

The Chartist Cave: Image from  www.blaenau-gwent.gov.uk   "The union met in secret on the dark side of the hill, by the light of a...

And so my first 12 months of blogging on the landscape - of landscapism - reaches an end; a repository of thoughts given their head. ...

Three books are occupying my thoughts at the moment; linked by their combination of a contemporary critique of the harsh realities of la...

"Let me love the country, the rivers running through the valleys, the streams and woodlands - happy though unknown. Give me broad fie...

A common leitmotif of writings and commentary on landscapes - both urban and rural - is that wildness, and nature it self, is on the ret...

Fine map that neatly shows the (literal) powerhouses and important landmarks of the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in Britain. ...

Ley lines are not for me as a credible theory but, like ghost stories and other esoteric and arcane ideas, for a rationale observer wh...