The Beautiful Medieval Unicorn Theatre on Abingdon
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Jan 102012
As recently as the early 20th century homeowners were warding off witches and evil spirits by placing shoes, and even dead cats in the walls, which can surprise owners carrying out renovations
The Museum at Northampton, historically the centre of shoe manufacturing in England, has an Index of Concealed Shoes, which registers all footwear discovered within historic houses, not just in the UK but across the world. There are about 1500 items logged and half of them are children’s shoes and then women’s shoes are more common that men’s. The shoes also tend to be well-worn. If not now, shoes once used to retain the foot shape of the wearer and maybe, therefore their spirit.
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
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I love this sort of news. Traditions and FolkLore of our past fascinates me 
Jan 102012
The US schools with their own police
More and more US schools have police patrolling the corridors. Pupils are being arrested for throwing paper planes and failing to pick up crumbs from the canteen floor. Why is the state criminalising normal childhood behaviour?
Jan 082012
Facebook’s Timeline shows the world your past since birth, if you choose – will you? Here are some things to think about first WE ARE born, we live, we die – and now we can do it all on Facebook. The social network recently rolled out Timeline, a dramatic update to its profile pages that lists [...]