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Help! My Town Is Full Of Conspiracy Theorists

My hometown has always been a place where fringes grow. But this is different

8 min readFeb 20, 2024

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The words scamdemic graffitied onto a wall

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My Grandmother Was Winston Churchill’s Private Nurse

A stash of wartime love letters reveals an extraordinary story

9 min readMar 29, 2024

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Doris and Roger Miles outside a church on their wedding day in 1942

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What’s Really in That Expensive Ice Cream You Just Bought?

When the mass producers do a better job than the artisans

6 min readMay 17, 2024

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A tub of artisan ice cream

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Have I Just Bought Today’s Equivalent of Nazi Memorabilia?

The story behind this piece of British Empire propaganda isn’t as simple as you might think

7 min readMay 23, 2024

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Antique picture of a battle in the desert in a gilt frame

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Thought Thinkers

Our Obsession with Plastic Windows Is Harming Our Homes, Our Planet and Our Health

The great big uPVC window con and the lie of maintenance free

9 min readJun 19, 2024

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Our Obsession with Plastic Windows Is Harming Our Homes, Our Planet and Our Health

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Storeys

Write for Storeys

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7 min readJun 13, 2024

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Rooted

Oh Continental Supermarket, Let Me Count the Ways I Love You

An antidote to the uniformity of UK and American food shopping

6 min readJun 11, 2024

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Oh Continental Supermarket, Let Me Count the Ways I Love You

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Rooted

This is Why I’m Going to My Kids’ School for Lunch

Not all school food is bad food

8 min readMay 24, 2024

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Kids having lunch at an East German school in 1975

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NineteenTwentyTwo

In the Skies Above Us, the Everyday Drama of Aerial Combat

Just looking up reveals a different world

5 min readMay 15, 2024

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In the Skies Above Us, the Everyday Drama of Aerial Combat

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There Are Roads. And Then There Are The Lanes

You never quite know what’s around the next corner

7 min readApr 16, 2024

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View up a rural lane with high hedges and tree

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Dan Stevens

Dan Stevens

Interested in everything to the exclusion of nothing, except musicals. Likes old things, storytelling and taking stuff apart. Editor of Storeys and 1922.

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