#Tennyson Friend:

Bewitched isn't what it used to be.

A glamorous new religion needs glamorous old buildings.

A romance of redemption remains the Tennyson clique's most popular drama.

Excessively careful terminology helps uncover the real story behind the English 'Civil War'. And George Orwell's Animal Farm.

He also made up the French Revolution and Frederick the Great before inventing hero-worship and fascism.

Britain's earliest recorded serpent mound is the cute curl at the right of this 1754 plan. Why no older references?

A carefully described serpent mound... which didn't make it into Scotland's Canmore database of ancient sites.

A Scottish serpent mound with finds of flint and bronze knives. And folklore about battling giants.

So little information has big implications.

A map of pre-Victorian Grimsby helps us understand why mystery and mimic plays were suppressed.

Royston Cave's carvings depict the Hertfordshire town's market days.

B&Q was closed, so we improvised.

England's Civil War narrative doesn't explain eastern England's destroyed towns, depopulation and signs of radiation sickness.