Living in the UK and being interested in history, I've been to most of the sites on this travel log so far, and it's been fun to see them presented here. I was really not expecting Lunt fort to feature, though. I live in Coventry and it's always seemed like a very small local attraction, which doesn't get a lot of attention. I'd even thought I'd caught a glimpse of it in the introduction segment on one of the earlier videos, but just thought 'nah- can't be Lunt fort'. Anyway, it's really nice to see people visiting it from so much further afield than normal. Sorry the reconstructions are a bit run down- our local council has had big cuts made to its budget by the central government over the past decade, and like a lot of predominantly urban councils, hasn't been able to give heritage sites the same amount of attention they got previously. Local government funding in the UK is a weird, complicated subject that I very much doubt interests many people, but the short version is that poorer councils have been forced to do more with less than richer councils due to current central government policy and have suffered as a result. This is also the main reason Leicester's Jewry Wall museum was shut in the earlier video.
In the case of Leicester, I suspect that the council's archaeological funding shifted to King Richard III after his burial was discovered under a car park in 2012. He was ceremonially reinterred in the cathedral and there is a new visitor centre.
Loved all your interview ❤️ with the Oxford curator. I look forward to others along the same lines. They're quite understandable and enjoyable 😉. Thank you 😊 for providing them for us! Always, Teri
