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Barry Shurlock feature for Hampshire Chronicle | Hampshire Chronicle
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, writes Barry Shurlock DURING the last hundred years many small countries have experienced the withdrawal of a colonial power. More often than not, a long period of chaos is endured before order is regained. More than 1,500 years ago Hampshire was in a similar situation, as the Romans left and Saxons took their place. The first coherent snapshot of the organisation of the country is the Domesday Book. It was compiled nearly 700 years after the collapse of the Roman Empire and a generation after the Norman Conquest. It shows a county divided into ‘hundreds’, with some names that make little sense to modern eyes.
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Itâs odd how Portsmouth seems to produce or stimulate writers and stories. Conan Doyle was a penniless doctor in Southsea (grubby, tarry Pompeyâs green seaside twin sister). Charles Dickens was born there. H.G. Wells toiled in a draperâs shop in Southsea and hated it. The city features often, with its grotesque, ferocious prostitutes known as âPortsmouth Brutesâ in Patrick OâBrianâs matchless series of novels about the Navy in Napoleonic Times, and of course in C.S.Foresterâs currently under-rated âHornblowerâ stories. The murder victim (as he turns out to be) in Josephine Teyâs extremely ingenious âThe Singing Sandsâ is a young man from Portsmouth who used to love crossin
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