Sunday, May 29, 2016

Diary briefs

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Unpublished Dalí diary sold in Paris - Sotheby’s , The Guardian The diaries of Vivienne Westwood - The Bookseller Napoleonic Wars diary ...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Inside Stalin’s Russia

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Sir Reader Bullard, a British career diplomat whose final posting was as Ambassador in Tehran, died 40 years ago today. He served as Consul-...
Saturday, May 21, 2016

Jerzyk’s tragic story

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‘In town there was a poster confirming the shooting of ten people. If by the 4th of the month the bandits aren’t handed in they will shoot t...
Saturday, May 14, 2016

Hammers inside my head

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’Saw the name Morecambe & Wise on the front of the theatre - first time on Broadway. Mind you, it won’t be there for long. We do the sho...
Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Severed heads drinking Coke

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Happy birthday Eleanor Coppola, 80 today. Although her film director husband, Francis Ford Coppola is better known, Eleanor has made a caree...
Monday, May 2, 2016

Breaking superstitious pictures

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‘We brake down 28 superstitious Pictures; and took up 11 popish Inscriptions in Brass; and gave order for digging up the Steps, and taking o...
Sunday, May 1, 2016

Of Napoleon, and a turtle

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Sir Neil Campbell, a British army officer who rose to become a colonial governor, was born 240 years ago today. He is largely remembered for...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

From real to fantastical

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Today marks the bicentenary of the birth of Charlotte Brontë. Although she was the most prolific of three sisters, all writers, she is remem...
Monday, April 11, 2016

Gouty old gentlemen

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‘The hippos were delightful. They seemed so aristocratic, like gouty old gentlemen, puffing and blowing and yawning, as though everything bo...
Sunday, April 10, 2016

Waugh’s appalling diaries

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Evelyn Waugh, author of such famous novels as Brideshead Revisited , Scoop , and Decline and Fall , died 50 years ago today. He was a commit...