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Simon Scott Plummer

Quixotic Quest Across Spain
Simon Scott Plummer

The Middle Kingdom’s Problem with Religion
Faced with an astonishing revival of Christianity in China, Beijing is reacting with a mixture of alarm, repression and control
Simon Scott Plummer

Faded Glory: In The Footsteps of Old Fritz
In 1757, Prussia under Frederick the Great celebrated its most famous victories in the Seven Years’ War. The two battlefields at Leuthen and Rossbach are still worth seeing today
Simon Scott Plummer

In the Steps of the Spanish
Book reviews of Love: A Secret History by Simon May and All About Love by Lisa Appignanesi
Simon Scott Plummer

Well Worth an Arm and a Leg
Book review of Holy Bones, Holy Dust: How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe by Charles Freeman and Walsingham: Pilgrims and Pilgrimage by Michael Rear
Simon Scott Plummer

Melancholy Monuments of Chivalry
From Cyprus and Anatolia to Rhodes, the Levant’s castles bear witness to the struggle for supremacy between East and West
Simon Scott Plummer

Park and Ride
The Olympic juggernaut has trampled over any local council objections to its project. Now it looks like it will do the same to Greenwich Park
Simon Scott Plummer

Castles of the Imagination
From Wales to Syria, fortresses are monuments to an age of chivalry — but some are only castles in the air
Simon Scott Plummer

From Treblinka to Tannenberg
A tour through Eastern Poland uncovers the wreckage of German military might
Simon Scott Plummer

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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