Monday, May 26, 2014

How the other half lives

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Today marks the centenary of the death of Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant who shocked New York society in the late 1880s with his reportage o...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

This violent typewriter

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Happy 70th birthday Jimmy Boyle, the famous Scottish criminal-turned-artist who now lives in France and Morocco. Although he found fame and ...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Diary briefs

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Diaries of Major Frederick Tubb VC - Australian War Memorial , ABC Canberra Bob Carr’s ‘indiscreet’ diary revelations - Sydney Morning He...
Friday, May 9, 2014

A place for asides

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Happy 80th birthday Alan Bennett. One of Britain’s best loved writers, Bennett is particularly well known for his plays, and for his voice, ...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Of murder and raptus

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Today marks the 160th anniversary of the death of Lord Cockburn, a popular and much admired Edinburgh judge who, as Scotland’s Solicitor-Gen...
Sunday, April 20, 2014

Newes from Cambridge

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John Rous, an unremarkable parson from Suffolk, was baptised all of 430 years ago today, and is only remembered because of a diary he kept a...
Monday, April 14, 2014

The most barbarous murder

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Sir John Reresby was born 380 years ago this very day. He inherited a baronetcy, and remained loyal to the Crown during the so-called Interr...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

The wonderful echo

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Charles Burney, the much revered music historian and father of the famous diarist, Fanny Burney, died 200 years ago today. Although not know...