Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Boglice round the neck

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‘At the Crown, Sir Christopher told of killing the wormes with burnt oyle (elsewhere mentiond) and of curing his Lady of a thrush by hanging...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Wall Street palpitating

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It is 140 years today since the death of George Templeton Strong, a New York lawyer remembered for his remarkable diary, which provides a ne...
Monday, July 20, 2015

Diary briefs

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Goebbels’ family wins royalty battle -  The Guardian ,  Newsweek WW1 diary of Royal Engineer online - Maynooth University , The Irish Time...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Dodgson in wonderland

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‘Went to Macmillan’s and wrote in 20 or more copies of Alice  to go as presents to various friends.’ This is Charles Dodgson, otherwise know...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

Better than Proust’s madeleine

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Happy birthday Timothy Garton Ash, historian and journalist. I sometimes read your articles in The Guardian , but, on seeing that your 60th ...
Monday, July 6, 2015

The rock and roll life

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‘Today is my birthday and it’s the first one I ever spent on a train. Arrived Chicago at 1pm. Had a three-hour layover then caught the 4pm t...
Sunday, July 5, 2015

Her genius triumphed

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‘She looked ill, and I thought her articulation indistinct, and her voice drawling and funereal during the first act; but as she advanced in...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015

The witty, dapper Mr. Hay

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John Milton Hay, one of the US’s less well-remembered political heroes, died 110 years ago today. As Secretary of State under President McKi...
Tuesday, June 30, 2015

The earliest literary diary

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It is one thousand and seventy years since the death of  Ki no Tsurayuki, a nobleman and poet renowned for his erudition and skills in Chine...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

Ran about all day

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The Australian cricketer Victor Trumper, once called the best batsman in the world, died a century ago today - and he was only in his late 3...