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Shakespeare 1: Moliere 0
I have been told by many non nateive English speaers that the language you are now reading is past its sell by date, a relic of a defunct Imperial power, and that the sheer numbers of spanish and Chin… more →
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Shakespeare 1: Moliere 0
wrote 23 hours ago: I have been told by many non nateive English speaers that the language you are now reading is past i … more →
Woodpeckers
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wrote 2 days ago: I heard a live set from the Handsome Family last night – they have – sort of – bee … more →
Foundling Tokens
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wrote 3 days ago: Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries in England, there were problems with large numbers of orphans … more →
Hudson in St Ives
wrote 6 days ago: One of my favourite authors is W.H. Hudson, a brilliant naturalist from the early 20th century. This … more →
Brewing in Cleveland
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wrote 1 week ago: I own a book called Brewing in Cleveland, part of the “Images Of America” series. About … more →
Silvester and Gustav Adolf Days
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Sometimes, traveling in a foreign country leads to a disconnect. Like the time Dave and I went to Ca … more →
When Wrong is Right: Antisemitic
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wrote 2 weeks ago: I am rarely a stickler for the use or misuse of language, in fact I’m pretty lazy about some a … more →
Old/New Word: Radical
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wrote 2 weeks ago: I am a big fan of the politician J.A. Roebuck who became the first – and I think to date the o … more →
Dead White Men
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wrote 3 weeks ago: I did a lot of research on the Caribbean for my book ‘the big World of Mr Bridges’ Micro … more →
Nothing Real, Nothing Permanent
wrote 3 weeks ago: As the world stands by in horror as Syria tears itself apart, Obama seems to be agonising over wheth … more →
Not the Silly Season
wrote 3 weeks ago: These islands have a long history of sightings of big cats, often on windswept moorlands and often f … more →
Aunt Thomas Goes on Holiday
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wrote 3 weeks ago: I have finaly finished reading the wonderful family history book about several families in Bratton, … more →
A Crossroad fo Gods
wrote 1 month ago: There is so much in Charles Glass’s book, ‘Tribes with Flags’ that should be engra … more →
Hambacher Fest 1832
wrote 1 month ago: The Tenement Museum visitor center and shop at 103 Orchard Street, New York, New York has a great se … more →
The Wandering Artist
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wrote 1 month ago: Romantic Movement was big in England in the late 18th/early 19th century, my favourite anecdote of w … more →
Shut Your Mouth
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wrote 1 month ago: London’s National Portrait Gallery has an exhibition on the work of American painter George Ca … more →
Mark Twain in Damascus
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wrote 1 month ago: Some more from Charles Glass, in his ‘Tribes with Flags’. I knew Train travelled to Brit … more →
A Woman Whose Life's Poetry Never Sank to Prose
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wrote 1 month ago: Yet another excerpt from Charles Glass’s ‘Tribes with Flags’. He discovered the st … more →
Newby the Newby
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wrote 1 month ago: Eric Newby is one of the best known of the many English travel writers, but I have ony recently disc … more →
