Modelling the Post-Fossil-Fuel Future. When the economy will shrink and localism will grow,
by Tim Watkins Recently, re-reading Tom Sharpe’s Blott on the Landscape, I stumbled upon this passage: “… she was faced with the destruction of everything she loved, the Hall, the Gorge, the wild landscape, the garden, the world her ancestors had fought for and created. All this would go, to be replaced by a motorway …
The concept of the “hundred” was a key administrative unit in medieval England, particularly in rural areas, and it played a significant role in local governance from the Anglo-Saxon period through the later Middle Ages. Hundreds were subdivisions of shires (counties) and were integral to the administration of justice, collection of taxes, and the organization …