Bob Trubshaw
The past as never before! New insights into local history, with an emphasis on Leicestershire and adjoining counties plus an occasional foray further afield. All based on over forty years researching history, archaeology, place-names, geology and much more.
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What is a museum?
Were Anglo-Saxon weaving huts women-only places?
Leicestershire and Rutland's holy wells
Ploughs not piety? Anglo-Saxon economic regeneration in the seventh century
Penda – the last guardian of the Great Sacred Grove
Through the Eye of the Skull: peculiar first-person perspectives
Nottinghamshire's earliest churches
Legendary journeys of Britain
Evolving Anglo-Saxon agriculture
Inventing the English rural idyll
Black Annis: Leicester's very own bogey-person
‘Ey up me Duc!’ Leicester’s dialect and accent
Watling Street: the biggest cultural boundary in England
"Following the money" along medieval bypasses
Why Melton Mowbray needed to be called ‘middle town’
Salt ways in Leicestershire
Roman roads in north-east Leicestershire
Anglo-Saxon Leicestershire – the exceptional available evidence
Ironstone quarries of Leicestershire revisited
How Anglo-Saxons survived without satnavs
The evidence for an Anglo-Saxon horse cult
When U-bends were sacred. And the dragons who dwelt there.
Asking Curious Questions
Anglo-Saxon Avebury
Charnwood slate gravestones and eighteenth century trade routes
Early churches and waterborne trade
The significances of square headdresses
Beside not above: before the supernatural was invented
King Dick cops it!