The Most Recent Post is The Man Who Joined Up London. This is Nicolas Barbon, the unscrupulous developer of much of what is now Holborn and the Strand after the Great Fire and also made a major and now often unacknowledged contribution to economic thinking. I have also been re-editing and updating the series on the history of the regional landscape. Series : The Deep Past

Content :

Tinseltown on Thames

Sets and Settings

The Rough Guide to Hell

Welcome to Hell

Dante's Inferno

Bosch's Garden of Delights

Milton's Paradise Lost

The History of Hell

Creators of Places

Mad Ludwig : The Fairy Tale King of Bavaria

John Law : The Man Who Broke France

Edward Watkin : The Victorian Elon Musk

Nicholas Barbon : The Man Who Joined Up London

The Earth & earth beneath your feet.

(This is a yomp through the long history of the shaping of the landscape of southeast England, mainly focusing on the Home Counties north of the Thames.)

Series : The Deep Past The Story of the Land : Intro

1. Hell to High Water Creation to Extinction

2. Coming Up For Air England Arrives.

3 Mud Propagating Stone

4. The Chalk The Chalk

5. Chilling Out The Ice Ages

6. Welcome Homo Hunters & Gatherers

7. Enter The Flintstones The First Farmers

8. Bronze & Iron Stonehenge to Silchester

9. Britons to Saxons Times of Change

10. The Saxon Countryside The 'Open Field' system

11. Privatising the Land Enclosures & The Wool Trade