Articles By Simon Scott Plummer
April 2013
Faced with an astonishing revival of Christianity in China, Beijing is reacting with a mixture of alarm, repression and control
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March 2012
In 1757, Prussia under Frederick the Great celebrated its most famous victories in the Seven Years’ War. The two battlefields at Leuthen and Rossbach are still worth seeing today
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July/August 2011
Book review of A Pilgrim in Spain by Christopher Howse
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May 2011
Book review of Holy Bones, Holy Dust: How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe by Charles Freeman and Walsingham: Pilgrims and Pilgrimage by Michael Rear
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January/February 2011
From Cyprus and Anatolia to Rhodes, the Levant’s castles bear witness to the struggle for supremacy between East and West
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May 2010
The Olympic juggernaut has trampled over any local council objections to its project. Now it looks like it will do the same to Greenwich Park
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October 2009
From Wales to Syria, fortresses are monuments to an age of chivalry — but some are only castles in the air
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March 2009
A tour through Eastern Poland uncovers the wreckage of German military might
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About Simon Scott Plummer
Simon Scott Plummer is a freelance journalist and former leader writer on the Daily Telegraph.
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