UK points of interest
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Context! Mostly famous these days from a quote by someone else, David Livingstone was a Victorian Christian missionary who made several expeditions into Central Africa, recording the horrors of the slave trade there. He did help to pressure the British Empire into curtailing the Arab slavers in the region, and he was the first European…
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Context! The Hunterian Museum, part of the University of Glasgow, is the best University museum I’ve seen outside of Oxbridge. It’s a really beautiful building, free to enter, and has exhibits on basically everything. The Hunterian Collection is over two hundred years old, and has picked up some wild exhibits in its time. Some of…
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Context! Britain as a whole has never had a good reputation for food, and this is especially true of our neighbours to the North. I actually think this is pretty unfair, but a long essay about why I think Yorkshire puddings and shortbread are genuinely top tier eats would be really boring to read. Also…
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Context! Nottingham Castle’s biggest problem has always been the fact that it’s not actually a castle. This is a big problem for a city where so much of the tourism is based around Robin Hood – people expect to see the famous Nottingham castle, when it doesn’t actually exist. Actually this is only half true.…
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Context! Just visiting a mosque in Britain these days is nothing special as we have loads of them. It’s like just visiting a church. I’ve been to a few in the UK, including London’s Central Mosque and some smaller ones in the Midlands, but most of the mosques in Britain aren’t really tourist attractions in…
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On my trip to London I saw some interesting stuff that I’d like to briefly talk about, but aren’t interesting enough for their own articles. I’ve listed them here!! 🛸Woking’s Martian Tripod Statue The town of Woking, in addition to its mosque, is also famous as the area where HG Wells had Martians crash land…
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I wasn’t able to take many photos during this visit (I asked and was politely told no), so I’ve included some photos I found online to help illustrate this post. 14th September update! I was looking through the Happy Science YouTube channel when I realised that some of the livestreams show a lot of the…
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Context! As huge as London is, I think the Crystal Palace dinosaurs are my favourite thing in the whole city. They’re obscure, out the way and basically falling apart these days, but there’s really nothing like them anywhere else in the planet. The dinosaurs (and other prehistoric animals) were built in Crystal Palace Park way…
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Most of the photos I took won’t include people as I wanted to avoid any privacy issues. To help best show you what the community looks like, I’ve included some photographs of members from the Bruderhof website. I’ve also avoided using specific names for the same reason. Context! The Bruderhof community is difficult to categorise.…
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(This is a companion to the main post I did on Kelvedon Hatch bunker, which can be found here). Visiting Kelvedon Hatch by public transport is possible, albeit awkward. Even the website doesn’t really advise it. I made the journey myself in May 2021, and to help anyone else who wants to do it, I’ve…
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