Monthly Archives: July 2015

Mis-lead, chasing for the truth about Chasewater

This is a long post which covers a number of subject areas relevant to this website. Fundamentally it relates to investigating unexplained wildfowl illnesses and deaths which appear correlatively linked to certain sites, so much so that it is almost … Continue reading

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Why I’m not celebrating “Black Country Day.”

  Where is “The Black country”?  Even those who claim to live within it cannot answer with certainty, because the area itself does not really exist. It was largely invented in the 20th Century by white historians with a tale … Continue reading

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“Smashing” tanks?

This 1942 booklet is one of many advising the Home Guard of training techniques, which appears to be all that they really ever did. There is no description of who the author Derek Whipp was or how he had come … Continue reading

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