One foot in the past

New Statesman | December 10, 2007| | Copyright

Certain places just resonate with history, discovers Nicolette Jones as she traces the steps of Samuel Plimsoll

We all know what it is to make a physical journey that is also, in our heads, a journey back in time. Every visit home can be like that. The Queen has just had a second honeymoon in Malta, presumably to return, in her royal head, to 60 years ago. It is also why we visit places of historic interest: to go back in our minds beyond our own pasts. So we walk on Hadrian's Wall imagining ourselves Roman centurions on the alert for glimpses of woad. We stand in the Tower of London at the ...

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