Shaston Arms Review: Shaston Is a Novelist’s Invention
Shaston Arms Review: Shaston Is a Novelist’s Invention | Thomas Hardy renamed the whole of the West Country, and Shaston is his name for Shaftesbury, and it stuck
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The Admiral Hardy Review: The Man Who Held the Dying Nelson
The Admiral Hardy Review: The Man Who Held the Dying Nelson | Named for Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy – Nelson’s flag captain at Trafalgar, of ‘Kiss me, Hardy’ fame, later Governor of Greenwich Hospital
Shaston Arms Review: Named After a Town That Hardy Renamed
Shaston Arms Review: Named After a Town That Hardy Renamed | Shaston is the old name for Shaftesbury in Dorset, revived by Thomas Hardy for his novels – a literary borrowing in the district of writers