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What is the evidence?\u00a0 Can we do much more than guess?\u00a0 How should we regard the written records? We tramp the virtual streets of London in search of the light to shine on the Dark Ages.<\/p>\n<p>This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walks.com\">London Walks<\/a> event by Kevin Flude.<\/p>\n<p>To Book for this walk click<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/124973488067\"> here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also given as a physical walk at<strong> 2.30 pm<\/strong> on <strong>Saturday, September 28<\/strong>, 2019. The meeting point was <em>exit 2<\/em>\u00a0 <strong>St. Paul&#8217;s<span class=\"tube\">Tube<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 1st November 2020 \u200b The first British Brexit?\u00a0\u00a0 The Roman Britains kicked out the Romans in 407AD, and then asked them to come back\u00a0 after a catastrophic collapse.\u00a0 Faced with plaque, civil war, invasion, mass\u00a0 immigration,\u00a0 industrial decline, reversion to barter the authorities struggled against anarchy and the Dark Ages. 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