Contents

The Rough Guide to Heaven & Hell 

(Just in case you plan to visit) 

The History of Hell 

Dreams of Cockaigne (1): Fiction & Film

Dreams of Cockaigne (2) Architects & Autocrats  

Welcome to Hell

Dante's Inferno

Bosch's Garden of Delights

Milton's Paradise Lost

People who shaped the World. Or bits of it. 

(This is a yomp through the long story 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  

(Why does it look like it does?)

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 

(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

A Hillfort Near You

The Olde Country Cottage

A Game of Thrones: Wallingford & Ewelme

Strange Geographies

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

On Psychogeography: Without Enthusiasm

Psychogeography: With Vitriol

Psychotropicgeography: Mindbending

The Dance of the Early Continents  

The Universe: A Pootler's Guide to Weird Exoplanets 

The Universe: The Limits of the Imagination 

This Land is.....

(On the nebulous nature of ownership and citizenship) . 

Your land:  Series Intro  

The Crown's land. All of it.