Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Diary briefs

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Diaries of G. V.  Desani to be published - Scroll The Diaries of Theodore Roosevelt, 1877-1886 - Suny Press , Amazon Diaries of Korea’s...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Quite a historic occasion

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‘I also informed the Council that May and I had decided some time ago that our children would be allowed to marry into British families. It ...
Monday, May 25, 2015

Riddell and Lloyd George

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George Allardice Riddell, the early 20th century press baron and key adviser to David Lloyd George during the First World War, was born 150 ...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

I was rather incredulous

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‘He explained his call to my astonishment that Beadle, Tatum, and I were to be the co-recipients of the Nobel prize in medicine this year. I...
Friday, May 22, 2015

Insurrection in Paris

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‘Firing is heard. The houses are in turmoil. Doors and casements open and shut violently. The women-servants chat and laugh at the windows. ...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Young Boswell in London

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‘It is very curious to think that I have now been in London several weeks without ever enjoying the delightful sex, although I am surrounded...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Weeds don’t spoil

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‘My [90th] birthday. [. . .] It is unusual, I believe, for persons of this age to retain possession of their faculties, or so much of them a...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Tears instead of ink

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Sir John Oglander, an aristocrat and politician associated with the Isle of White, died all of 430 years ago today. He is as much remembered...