Thursday, May 24, 2012

Victoria’s diary online

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Images of all 40,000 pages plus of Queen Victoria’s diary - from 1832 to 1901 - have been published online as part of the Diamond Jubilee ce...
Monday, May 14, 2012

H-t was with me

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August Strindberg, considered by some to be the most celebrated Swedish author and playwright of all time, died a century ago today. Not kno...
Saturday, May 12, 2012

Awfully tortured by fleas

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Edward Lear, the great illustrator and creator of ‘nonsense’ poems, was born 200 years ago today, the day after, in fact, the assassination ...
Friday, May 11, 2012

An agony of tears

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Today marks the 200th anniversary of the only assassination of a British Prime Minister - that of Spencer Perceval. He was shot down in the ...
Thursday, May 3, 2012

The scarlet tanager

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Today marks the centenary of the birth of the writer May Sarton. She is not well known or remembered in the UK, but the anniversary is being...
Friday, April 27, 2012

The drollest mushroom

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American philosopher, speaker and essayist, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century, died 13...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

A. C. Benson’s inner life

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Today marks 150 years since the birth of A. C. Benson, a much respected academic and writer who became master of Magdalene College, Cambridg...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

In Turkish/Greek waters

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It is 210 years since the birth of George William Frederick Howard, a British politician who went on to become the 7th Earl of Carlisle. A c...
Sunday, April 15, 2012

Recovering Titanic bodies

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It is a century today since the great, and supposedly unsinkable, Titanic hit an iceberg and sank, drowning more than 1500 people. The trag...