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Discover... LondonThe reason central London is so very exciting for historians is that so much has happened here over such a long period of time.
London was founded in what is now the financial district, the Square Mile, after the Roman invasion of 43 AD. It was abandoned during part of the Dark Ages, when there was a Saxon port further along the river near where the West End is today, then reoccupied during the reign of Alfred the Great in the 9th century.
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Discover... The East of EnglandEast Anglia is a beautiful land of ghosts. In the 13th century this was the most densely populated part of Britain, but the last 700 years have seen a slow decline.
As England’s primary economic focus shifted from trade with the Low Countries to its Empire and the great Atlantic ports in the west, large-scale depopulation occured in the east. A common sight in this region today is an incongruously huge medieval church towering over a tiny, shrunken village.
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Discover... The MidlandsThe English counties that run along the Welsh border south of Cheshire shelter some of the most idyllic countryside in Britain, undiscovered jewels that do not catch the eyes of those who live elsewhere because they think there is nothing more to this region than the conurbations around Birmingham. They could not be more wrong.
It was on the fertile agricultural lands of the Midlands that some of the greatest fortunes of medieval England were made, and this is still an excellent place to find unspoilt villages and towns that have changed little in centuries.
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Digging for Westray
New excavations have begun on Westray in the Orkney Islands, where the Orkney Venus, a tiny stone carving and the oldest representation of a human form ever found in Scotland, was revealed last year.
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