What of my identity? It is interwoven between marsh, fen and town but the world changes.  My roots and ancestry is firmly in the Fens....

The local anger to this was huge and Professor Beard suffered an horrendous personal attack and an inappropriate backlash. In the meantime,

It is ironic that whilst typically being the driest area of the country in terms of rainfall the Fens of South Lincolnshire are also...

I have emphasized earlier that the countryside of The Wash and the Fens inland effectively serve large towns and cities. The fisherman...

Urban bias could be seen as an antidote to parochialism. But, like parochialism, urban bias can be bad thing as well as good. Urban bias...

The town centres of Spalding, Boston and Wisbech saw massive changes to their town centres dominated by a new generation of migrants.

Here I explain the reality of inheritance tax .   In 2007 I was outside my son’s school when I bumped into a local farmer – at least I...

Most farmers consider the statement a lie. Whether it is or not is to be proven. Here I examine a take on inheritance tax that may be a...

November 1930 saw the following announcement that was to herald further establishment of the food processing industry in Spalding hot on...

“Only the richest estates will pay – not small, family farms.” This is the repeated phrase parroted by the Chancellor and other Labour...

My experience with Inheritance Tax and especially with Farm Inheritance Tax Relief is that it appears to be applied inconsistently and...

In this second  post I will demonstrate how inheritance tax can affect a tenant farmer by referring to a real life example from my past...

In the Chancellor's Autumn budget of 2024 changes were made to Inheritance tax Relief that reduced this relief on the value of both...

Modern sugar production from sugar beet owes its origins in the Prussian Empire of 1801 which saw the first beet sugar factory opened in...

Every so often I share some writing that did not make the cut of Marsh Fen and Town. In this case  I look at land use, how agricultural...

Improvements in the living conditions of farm labourers were slow and largely depended upon the willingness and abilities of the larger...

Agricultural Labour - increased mobility and increased concern over child labour and the employment of women. The increased mobility of...

In May 2019 a meter high statue was unveiled in Hall Place, Spalding commemorating the times when Spalding had a May Hiring Fair where...

Every so often I will publish material that did not  make the script of “Marsh Fen and Town”. The following published in 1801 [i] is an...