Chester Writer's Blog
Blog URL http://chesterwriter.blogspot.com/
Located Chester, Cheshire United Kingdom
Tags chester, history, books, articles, author, writer, roman, archaeology, buildings
A blog featuring a number of articles written by Chester writer Phillip E Jones, author of "The Illustrated History Of Chester".
Latest Blog Posts
- Medocre Media In The UK on Sep 19, 2009
Are we such a lot of unthinking automatons nowadays that we don’t warrant being challenged by this country’s broadcasters and publishers? You could be forgiven for thinking so, given the levels of complete and utter rubbish that gushes daily from...
- Bull Terrier Seizures, The Myths Continue on Sep 19, 2009
Although the recent death of the 5 year old toddler Ellie Lawrenson in Merseyside is a tragedy for her family, it still remains a mystery as to how a young child found herself alone with an unsupervised dog and what happened to make the animal turn o...
- Tango's Tale - A Personal Story Of A Blue Irish Staffie on Sep 19, 2009
When I bought "Tango" from KK Kennels in the early 1990's, there was no way that I would have expected to still have him with me nearly 16 years later, especially when you consider that most Bull Terrier breeds only have an average life span of maybe...
- Direct From The BBC, A New Line In Tawdry Tabloid Journalism on Sep 19, 2009
No doubt along with hundreds of other Bull Terrier enthusiasts, I awaited last night’s “Panorama” program (Thursday 30th August 2007) with a mixture of both interest and trepidation, keen to see if the heavily trailed 17 month undercover invest...
- The Dragons Of Deva on Sep 19, 2009
Towards the end of the Roman military occupation of Britain, a series of internal disputes within the empire resulted in a serious depletion of legionary manpower throughout the province. Although these power struggles were in themselves, not unusual...
- British Politics - A Personal Perspective on Sep 16, 2009
Maybe you need to have been born in a particular era and be of a certain age to fully appreciate that full extent of the changes that have occurred in Britain over the past 50 years or so. Being born in the late 1950's, raised during the 1960's and t...
- Reaping The Rewards Of Political Failure on Sep 16, 2009
Boy! What a fair old country we have become in 21st Century Britain. It must be deeply gratifying for all of the UK’s former and present political leaders to finally realise their ambitions of fundamentally changing a country’s national character...
