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Cumbrian Celts do exist, whatever ex-editor of The Times says
The sacred stream Glenderamackin, or "pig river", flows down the flank of Blencathra. It tells us who exactly the earliest inhabitants of the Lake…
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Maverick Scottish monarch who held Cumbria hostage for nearly two decades
"Saint" David I grabbed Cumbria by force and made Carlisle Castle a monstrous fortress, leaving an indelible Scottish mark on the north's history
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Is the Viking invasion of Cumbria a delusion?
Victorians believed Norse warriors landed in the north west a thousand years ago in overwhelming numbers. But new research suggests influx may have…
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No, Cumbria didn't collapse after the Romans left
Traditional history says the north's economy, population and civilisation disintegrated. Christianity, pottery and trade disappeared. Then Anglo-Saxons…
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July 2025

What is the real meaning of this 1,000-year-old Viking cross?
Refugees from a 902 AD Irish battle erected enigmatic 15-foot monument in their new home. But exactly what is this bafflingly equivocal work trying to…
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The secret history of the Embleton Sword
This magnificent blade dated to around 50 BC was found in a Cumbrian bog. It comes from a brutal Iron Age world where food was used as a weapon.
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How historical ignorance wrecks Cumbrian farm livelihoods
Bourgeois myths that sheep eat trees and cherry blossom should flourish on top of Great Gable are pushing Lake District families out of agriculture
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How an unknown Roman city rose from the Cumbrian mud in a single night
Devastating 2009 floods removed a mile of soil a metre deep, revealing the largest imperial conurbation in the far north-west of Britannia
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June 2025

Does the Cumbria’s future lie in hosting shadowy killers like the lynx?
Advocates say bringing back the nocturnal predator that died out 1,300 years ago would boost biodiversity. It would kill “pests" such as deer - and…
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Hanged in chains: Henry VIII takes revenge on Cumbria
Protesters suspended in body-shaped iron cages after 40,000 northerners joined “loyal rebellion” that almost toppled the king
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Who made Chernobyl more disastrous for Cumbria? Whitehall did
Three weeks after Chernobyl nuclear explosion in Ukraine, bossy but ignorant Government officials descended on Cumbria insisting there was nothing to…
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May 2025

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