Sunlit Waters

Riverside promenade in Newcastle-upon-Tyne

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Windswept Moors, Roman Walls & Who Cut the Bloody Tree Down?!?

October 4th 2023
Between the years 122 and 128AD the Roman Emperor Hadrian had a stone wall up to four metres high built across the narrowest part of Great Britain (in what today are the English counties of Cumbria and Northumberland) from the Irish Sea to the North Sea, delineating the northernmost extent of the Roman Empire. Nowadays there exists both a walking trail and a bicycle route that follow the surviving ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Cumbria » Carlisle

Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more

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