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Jul 15, 2019

No Surrender Festival 2019 - Glory Days

Back for a third year, the No Surrender Festival, held at Vilanova de Bellpuig, in northern Spain, to celebrate the music of The Boss. T...

James McGee

May 14, 2019

Chalke Valley History Festival 2019

24th - 30th June. Make a note..! If it's summer it must be festival time and the Chalke Valley extravaganza just gets better and better w...

James McGee

Oct 21, 2018

No Surrender Festival - 2018 - Badlands

Following on from my previous blog entry (Jun 26th), here's the link to the official video of this year's No Surrender festival in Vilano...

James McGee

Jun 26, 2018

And talking of festivals....

As you might have gleaned from my bio and the occasional blog entry you'll know I'm a massive Springsteen fan, so when I chanced upon thi...

James McGee

Jun 24, 2018

Chalke Valley History Festival 2018

June 25th - July 1st Yep, it's coming up to the end of June so that means it's festival time again. Time to dig out those summer togs and...

James McGee

Jul 3, 2017

Sunday in the valley....

A cracking afternoon spent at the Chalke Valley History Festival. Glorious weather in a glorious setting. Managed to get there in time to...

James McGee

Apr 16, 2017

Chalke Valley History Festival 2017...a date for the diary.

CVHF 2017 26th June - 2nd July. It doesn't seem like five minutes since I was giving a plug for the 2016 Festival but here we are, only a...

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Oct 14, 2016

Hastings...950 years on....

Nothing quite like celebrating /commiserating with the Brexit result than to remember a battle in which we were stuffed by the French. Sa...

James McGee

May 3, 2016

Chalke Valley History Festival 2016

Yes, it's that time of year again, folks. You mean you didn't have the dates in your diary already? June 27th to July 3rd. Set in a stunn...

James McGee

Jul 15, 2015

War of 1812 brought to life...

A flavour of some re-enactment events commemorating the War of 1812, at the Jordan Historical Museum, Lincoln, Ontario; the Fanshaw Cons...

James McGee

Jun 17, 2015

Chalke Valley History Festival 2015

22nd - 28th June Set up by my old boss, James Heneage, former Ottakars CEO and an author in his own right (and, no, he isn't paying me fo...

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