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HauntaMAGOGraphy: The Ash-tree
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— 19 Mar 2009 mark sinker 5 comments

To read the story, click here; to read about our ‘hauntography’ project, click here.
“In March 1644 [Matthew Hopkins] had some seven or eight of that horrible sect of Witches living in the Towne where he lived, a Towne in Essex called Manin[…]

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…And did we mention our disco?
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— 19 Mar 2009 CarsmileSteve 10 comments

Poptimism is back! Back! BACK! This Friday, upstairs at The Horse Bar on Westminster Bridge Road, just across from Lambeth North tube. FREE entry, 7 ’til Midnight, hopefully the first of many.
If you don’t want to miss out on future Popti[…]

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King Lear at the Young Vic
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— 19 Mar 2009 Elisha Sessions 3 comments

The Young Vic is an exciting sort of place with a wealthy, sensual bustle to it. The lighting in the bar is of the kind that a friend once told me was “dark, so that everyone looks beautiful.” I was there, alone, to see Pete Postlethwaite[…]

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