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Two Roving Englishwomen
Even in these days of avalanches of instant information, the CLC team occasionally comes across an author about whom we cannot find out anything except that s/he wrote a particular book and therefore… more →
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Scots Abroad – Surely Not That Obvious?
wrote 2 days ago: A great blog by Rough Cat looking at all things fabulous about being Scottish. The blog looks at som … more →
Two Roving Englishwomen
wrote 5 days ago: Even in these days of avalanches of instant information, the CLC team occasionally comes across an a … more →
Travelling in your own back yard (and getting a social buzz for your event)
wrote 1 week ago: Ross Wigham writes about the Our Places, Our People weekend which gives Northumberland residents acc … more →
Ruthin’s Most Famous Son
wrote 1 week ago: I have been to Wales on only one occasion, and that was a day trip to from Cambridge to St Asaph in … more →
Emerging From The Archives
wrote 2 weeks ago: Just back from Venice, where a surreal moment was provided by a group of Estonians in full art-folkl … more →
The Worst Journey in the World, by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
wrote 2 weeks ago: This book tells the story of Scott’s ill fated expedition to Antarctica and the South Pole, written … more →
A Jungle Hero
wrote 4 weeks ago: Circumstances prevented my watching the first episode (of two) of ‘Bill Bailey’s Jungle Hero’ on BBC … more →
Native Americans, North and South
wrote 1 month ago: There is a very interesting (small, but perfectly formed) exhibition on at the National Portrait Gal … more →
Work, babbies, campervans and life. Part 1
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wrote 1 month ago: By Darren Caveney The older I get the more chilled I become about many a thing. I’m comfortable in m … more →
Who’s up for a binman’s holiday?
wrote 1 month ago: As Local Gov is never off duty, whilst holidaying in France Carolyne Mitchell couldn’t help bu … more →
Another Three Seconds Of Fame
wrote 1 month ago: Did you just see Victoria Wood on BBC 1, rafting down a river in China and reading from our reissue … more →
A life not lived
wrote 1 month ago: Karen Hart took up one of the [entirely optional] Weekly Blog Club themes for Week 13 and writes the … more →
5000 and Going Strong
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wrote 1 month ago: We have just achieved a significant milestone in the life of the Cambridge Library Collection – our … more →
Granite Island, A Portrait of Corsica, by Dorothy Carrington
wrote 1 month ago: I remember seeing this book during my first trip to Corsica; it caught my attention then and I remem … more →
Tulips Or Turbans
wrote 2 months ago: In spite of the wintry weather, my Tulipa turkestanica are in flower. They are always the first tuli … more →
Do You Like Kipling?
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wrote 2 months ago: The wrong (and excruciating) answer to this is: ‘I don’t know, I’ve never kippled’ (this joke is cou … more →
On A Mission
wrote 2 months ago: A notable bicentenary in 2013 is that of the birth of David Livingstone. I wrote about Livingstone a … more →
A Meeting of Civilisations
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wrote 2 months ago: In the last few days, a British government delegation, headed by the Prime Minister, has been in Ind … more →
The Broken Lands, by Robert Edric
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wrote 3 months ago: These days I have less time for reading, so forgive me for nurturing this blog with old reads; I wil … more →
