Dark History & Tourism

  • The Cragg Vale Coiners

    “I heard the coiners took the scissor to the Union Jack, with a snipper and a clipper and a bloody…

  • The Other Dead Sea

    The Aral Sea shoreline. It’s pretty cold; I’m even wearing socks. The sky above, coupled with the flat landscape over…

  • A morning at Pere Lachaise cemetery

    Although the breeze was light, and the rain had stopped before sunrise, I was glad of my fleece. I was…

  • Timor-Leste: Occupation and Independence

    Timor-Leste had been a country on my ‘hit list’ for quite a few years, although the reason is perhaps surprising.…