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Info on popular culture and everyday life
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Info on popular culture and everyday life
There is an old saying that whoever holds Stirling holds Scotland, and for most of the country’s history it was simply true. Stirling Castle stands on a great crag rising
There are castles that dominate a town, and then there is Edinburgh Castle, which dominates a whole nation’s imagination. Rising on a sheer black crag in the very centre of
Every so often a castle does more than witness history; it makes it. Pembroke, standing on a great rock almost surrounded by a tidal river in the far south-west of
Here is a strange kind of masterpiece: a castle so perfectly designed that architects still study it as the textbook ideal, and yet a castle that was never actually finished.
Some castles guard a hill, some a river crossing, some a coast. Caerphilly guards itself with water, and lots of it. Spread across a series of great artificial lakes in
