Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain

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Historian Matthew Green travels across Britain to tell the forgotten history of our lost cities, ghost towns and vanished villages. Revealing the extraordinary stories of how these places met their fate - and exploring how they have left their mark on our landscape and our imagination - Shadowlands is a deeply evocative and dazzlingly original account of Britain's past.

Scene Two: 10 October 1965. The publication of a lurid newspaper interview in which the leader of the Free Wales Army says his organisation fully intends to prevent the opening of Llyn Celyn. Taylor Swift received offer to perform at Coronation of King Charles III but turned it down, claims Omid Scobie in his new book Endgame Capel Celyn - a Welsh village drowned to provide a further source of water for the English city of Liverpool in the 1950’s. These places were lost for many various reasons for me the most striking story is that in Chapter eight, which he calls the Village of the Damned. That being the village of Capel Celyn in Wales, a village lost due to man’s need for water resources. While as an urban historian I have recently been looking at how Manchester gained its water from the Lake District and its disregard for the locals. This story is far more poignant as this removal of the people, the village is now under a water reservoir serving the people of England. How Green rebuilds the human stories and their fight is so striking and meaningful. More than 4,000 villages in Britain are at risk of catastrophic flooding in the next two decades: “Britain has some of the fastest disappearing cliffs in Europe.” Parts of London could be underwater by the end of this century. By then large areas of Britain might be “more shadow than land”. In 2005, an amateur archaeologist bought a field beneath which he believed lay what had been the largest city in WalesGrammy-winning rapper Young Thug is painted as the leader of a criminal street gang that murdered and committed slew of violent crimes in Atlanta

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Adele poses with BFF Alan Carr, 47, on the night she confirmed she had married Rich Paul - and the comedian's new toyboy lover, 27, took the photo Matthew Green explores Britain's lost and abandoned places in an intriguing new book. Pictured: Ruins of All Saints Church, Dunwich, Suffolk, collapsing due to constant erosion by the sea On the other hand, he takes an almost completely impartial view in one chapter to an incident where an entire village was lost to create a reservoir, setting out both po

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As in many stories of lost Britain there is always a story about Dunwich, the town that was built on a cliff in Suffolk before finally falling into the sea as the cliff collapsed. The story of the Church bell still being heard ringing today, is a fanciful story and always has been, but it is always a nice story to be reminded of. IF the purpose of structure is “to provide a sense of permanence in a natural world that never stands still”, as Matthew Green posits in Shadowlands: a Journey through Lost Britain, then the purpose of ruins might be to remind us of the essential futility of that ambition. Ruins, writes Green in this gripping travelogue cum history of Britain’s disappeared places, “are at once of their time, yet derailments of it, too, bringing the singularity – and fragility – of the present into stark focus”. Reputations are besmirched and there are accusations of fakery, with some going as far as to invoke the name of Heinrich Schliemann, the irresponsible archaeologist who blew up some of the remains of Troy with explosives. Tom Brady, 46, is LAUDED by fans as he shows off his VERY hunky frame in shirtless thirst trap snaps during family break