Contents

The Rough Guide to Heaven & Hell 

(Just in case you plan to visit) 

The History of Hell 

Welcome to Hell

Dante's Inferno

Bosch's Garden of Delights

Milton's Paradise Lost

Dreams of Cockaigne (1): Fiction & Film

Dreams of Cockaigne (2) Architects & Autocrats  

Strange Geographies

(Places you might see in your mind's eye. And nowhere else). 

On Psychogeography: Without Enthusiasm

Psychogeography: With Vitriol

Psychotropicgeography: Mindbending

The Universe: A Pootler's Guide to Weird Exoplanets 

The Universe: The Limits of the Imagination 

 Avalon (Part One)

Avalonia (Part Two)

People who changed (bits of) the World. 

(Often unintentionally)

This Land is.....

(On the nebulous nature of ownership and citizenship) . 

Your land:  Series Intro  

The Crown's land. All of it.

The Deep Past of the Home Counties

(This is a yomp through the long history of the region's landscape.)

Series: The Deep Past            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

Metroland & Middlesex  

(Even suburbia has its stories!) 

Middlesex: A Virtual County

Ossulstone (deceased)

Rothschildshire

The Suburban Sprawl

The Suburban Semi

A Thousand Words on a Brick

Excursions in Metroland: Stanmore

Excursions in Middlesex: The Old Canal

Excursions in Metroland: The Kilburn Klondike 

Tinseltown on Thames (1) Where and Why

Tinseltown on Thames (2) Sets & Settings 

Other Places 

(Just because. A Gallimaufrey).  

Holland: The 1700s Instagram 

The World (1): Thames Town: Shanghai

The World (2): Norilsk, Siberia

The World (3): Dubai

The World: (4) At Sea

Davos

The Enigma of Hillforts 

The Olde Country Cottage

A Game of Thrones: Wallingford & Ewelme

Irreverent London