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. Spies also figure very strongly in this book, probably because MI5 and MI6 are just around the corner. There is John Vassall, a mild-mannered Admiralty clerk who sold secrets to the Soviets. This is the forgotten history of Britain’s lost cities, ghost towns and vanished villages: our shadowlands.

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Stacey Solomon, husband Joe Swash and their kids transform into The Wizard of Oz characters as they pose for sweet family snaps on Halloween Experience the towns and settlements that have been lost to time, and understand how pivotal moments in history transformed Britain’s landscape, with Dr Matthew GreenAs Green roams expansively from Orkney’s buried neolithic houses of Skara Brae to Suffolk’s drowned medieval city of Dunwich, from the evacuated Hebridean island of Hirta to the flooded Welsh village of Capel Celyn, he explores the factors that led to their demise and traces the evolution of community and culture. The storm that would claim 200 lives reached its zenith of destruction on the night of Tuesday 20 November. It ravaged one of the remotest parts of the British Isles: a barren, virtually treeless, gently undulating landscape kissed by the midnight sun in midsummer, yet which at that time of year had some of the longest nights in the whole country.

A journey through the forgotten history of Britain

In Shadowlands the social historian Matthew Green travels through what he calls “lost Britain”, disentangling the stories and disinterring the remains of a series of ill-fated settlements across the country. The book, he warns us in his opening statement, is written “in the minor key”; he is interested only in “what fails, not what succeeds”. Could this vegan collagen supplement be the secret to your best skin ever? These real women are loving the results - so could it work for you? A nation of wheeler dealers: Half who sold a car online did so to an online buying service... and three-quarters were HAPPY with the experience! Welcome to Unseen Histories, a place where you can find out about the very best new history books, read author interviews and long-form pieces by the world’s leading historians. Our aim, as our name suggests, is to present history in an original, provoking and beautiful way. All our written pieces are accompanied by high quality visual material. Tyler Christopher dead at 50: Ex-husband of Eva Longoria and actor passes away following 'a cardiac event in his San Diego apartment'While other villages in Wales had been flooded for this purpose before, this was the first time it had been proposed without the consent of the valley’s inhabitants. Unsurprisingly, the announcement sparked a long and passionate campaign to stop the drowning from going ahead.