Category: Wiltshire

Clarissa Eden’s father was the younger brother of Winston Churchill. Her mother was the daughter of the seventh Earl of Abingdon. She was born into an upper-class society which still, as in Trollope’s novels, was organised to bring daughters into contact with eligible husbands at summer balls. A beauty, with her mother’s blue eyes, […]

It is a long time since I have incited homophobic hatred against anyone; I think I was about nine years old the last time it occurred. My mother had patiently explained to me that homosexuals were like vampire bats, passing on disease and filth through their ghastly and peculiar sexual practices. Her colourful image […]

Caught in the centre of a soundless field While hot inexplicable hours go by What trap is this? Where were its teeth concealed?

You seem to ask.

‘Myxomatosis’ by Philip Larkin Aldbourne, Wiltshire.

I saw the rabbit, a young doe, 50 yards or so down the path. ‘Look, ‘ I […]

V. S. Naipaul is one of the more striking figures of the great Indian literary diaspora. Yet he was not born in India and has never lived there. His family were originally impoverished high-caste peasants from the region of Gorakhpur. His grandfather migrated to Trinidad as an indentured servant at the end of the […]

Edwin Smith was renowned for sensitive and evocative photography that captured the essence of architecture and landscape. Since his death from cancer in 1971 at the early age of 59, his fame has receded, despite the unstinting efforts of the writer Olive Cook, his devoted widow and frequent collaborator. No fan of what […]

Autism is the term given to the collection of behaviors arising from unusual neurological (brain) development. There is evidence that in some cases this neurological difference is present from birth. However the observed behaviors, from which autism is diagnosed, tend not to be detectable until around the age of 18 months.

Autism is usually thought of […]

And yet I feel strangely elated.

The irony is that we nearly didn’t come to climate camp — because of the weather. At home in Wiltshire on Saturday morning, with a nice dry house full of chores and entertainments, the idea of camping in the rain seemed particularly unappealing. Like eating cold […]

Go, Car! On a recent Late Night with Conan O’Brien, the NBC talk show host took the three-wheeled GoCar for a spin with guest Bob Saget. But the little two-person stalled on one of San Francisco’s famous hills. After Saget pushed O’Brien to the top, the duo ditched it by the curb.
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Author: Erin E. Edmonds

But nothing, as any Bowood resident familiar with the lake’s eventful and complex past would tell you, could be further from the truth. Beneath its still waters lurks a centuries-old mystery that has fascinated and perplexed archaeologists for years, a story of raging controversy and historic drama that belies its apparent calm.
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