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Tonight thousands will gather at Stonehenge in an ancient tradition... which isn't ancient at all. It's being going on for just 24 years. The modern story of Stonehenge involves sacramental LSD, police brutality and a young Keir Starmer. It is fascinating. A solstice thread/1

A #Christmas treat to contribute to this ⁦⁦The Telegraph⁩ round-up of great churches with ⁦Chris Leadbeater⁩ ⁦Nick Trend⁩ ⁦Oliver Smith⁩ ⁦@sarahbtravel⁩ ⁦Heidi Fuller-love⁩ and more ⁦Telegraph Travel⁩ telegraph.co.uk/travel/comment…

Need some inspiration for those Xmas book tokens? These are perfect and … Stanfords is open🙌 National Book Tokens 🤗📚📖 Oliver Smith Ash Bhardwaj Caroline Eden Laura Coffey Matthew Teller Phoebe ‘Wander Woman’ Smith Tom Chesshyre Clare Hammond James Rebanks Noo Saro-Wiwa @jeffyoungwriter

Thanks to Country Life for listing On This Holy Island among “the books you wish you’d got for Christmas” this year countrylife.co.uk/country-life-m…

One of my favourite photographers and travel buddies, the wonderful Mark Read, has lost everything in the LA fires. Just horrendous. His friends have started a Go Fund Me to help Mark & family get back on their feet. Please share and donate ❤️ gofund.me/fa81dba9

Thanks Kirkus Reviews for this generous review of On This Holy Island – kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/o…

Me praising my favourite Spanish footpath and slagging off my least favourite part of South Devon in this round-up for the Times at the weekend .... thetimes.com/travel/inspira…

Mentioned in the Financial Times today in this piece by Oliver Smith

My book On This Holy Island publishes today in the United States of America. Slava Ukraini.

My latest for the Telegraph on medieval Norwich’s rich anchorite tradition - and those people who imprisoned their bodies so that their minds (and perhaps souls) could roam far instead telegraph.co.uk/travel/destina…

My latest for Times Travel on a pilgrimage along St Oswald's Way to the beautiful named Heavenfield church. Thanks to Dr Anne E Bailey for the insight! thetimes.com/travel/destina…

A self-guided stroll along the saintly St Oswald’s Way on the Northumberland coast takes walkers from the Lindisfarne foreshore to the crags of Hadrian’s Wall, Oliver Smith writes 🔗 Free to read thetimes.com/travel/destina…

Oliver's great book On This Holy Island is out now in paperback!

“The Night Riviera possesses a magic undiminished … that passengers might rub their eyes, and find themselves transported.” A truly wonderful slice of writing about GWR’s sleeper train to Cornwall.

It was a great pleasure to write this guide on pilgrimage for the wonderful Aeon Magazine Psyche Magazine , online today. psyche.co/guides/how-to-…

My main beef with the salt path - you learn next to nothing about Devon, Cornwall or the south west by reading it.

Incidentally, if you want a book about walking spiritual paths in Britain where everything has been fact checked to bits, then may I impartially recommend… bloomsbury.com/uk/on-this-hol…