Featured Event It s the 4th week of our amazing Transition Wilmslow Festival of Nature, and this week we have a talk by Dr Anna Gilchrist, Lecturer in Ecology at Manchester University, who will be zoom talking on Denatured Landscapes, with Lindow Moss…
Uncannily well-preserved bodies from the ancient world occasionally surface Northern Europe's bogs. Stranger even than their remarkable preservation is the manner of their deaths.
With a reputation for their savagery, the conquest of the Isle of Anglesey by the Romans put an end to the Anglesey Druids and the last pagan corner of Wales.
The peatlands along Hadrian’s Wall and elsewhere in the UK are drying up as climate change advances and this is alarming archaeologists looking for perishable artifacts.
In 1959, portrait artist and travel enthusiast Malika de Fernandez met the man who would become her murderer. Within two hours, Peter Reyn-Bardt, an airline employee, asked her to marry him – and she said yes. Within four days, they were married.
A few months later, the marriage broke down, and Fernandez began to travel the world again, now using her new husband s airline travel discount. Reyn-Bardt remained at his cottage in Cheshire, England.
Two years later, Fernandez disappeared completely, and Reyn-Bardt became suspect number one. Despite thorough searches of his property – including digging up his garden in search of her remains – the police weren t able to find any evidence of Malika or any wrongdoing. The case remained unsolved for two decades when events took an odd twist: part of a body was discovered within a peat bog near the home of Reyn-Bardt s cottage.