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What It Takes to Dive a Shipwreck at 90 Metres
Deep Wreck Diver Series
Aug 28
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Neil Jopson
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The Last Voyage of the Lusitania: What Really Lies at 90 Metres?
Deep Wreck Diver Series
Aug 21
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Neil Jopson
3
Electoral Rolls and Rate Books
Tracking Who Lived Where and When
Aug 18
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Neil Jopson
2
Missing for 140 Years
The Deep Wreck Diver Series
Aug 14
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Neil Jopson
The Screaming Skull
England’s Most Unsettling Folk Objects
Aug 11
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Neil Jopson
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I Bought a Shipwreck on Facebook Marketplace
The Deep Wreck Diver Series
Aug 7
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Neil Jopson
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How to Read an Old Map
And What It's Really Telling You
Aug 4
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Neil Jopson
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July 2026
New Farming, New Machines — The Technology That Changed the Countryside
Machines, Riots, and the Remaking of the English Countryside
Jul 30
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Neil Jopson
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A Norfolk Village and the Agricultural Revolution
Reading the Landscape
Jul 23
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Neil Jopson
3
How to Read a Tithe Map
And What It Tells You About Your Parish
Jul 16
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Neil Jopson
3
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The Factory Comes to Town
How British Industry Transformed Local Life
Jul 9
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Neil Jopson
2
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Parish Registers
Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Everything In Between
Jul 2
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Neil Jopson
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