Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Uproar in Parliament

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‘Uproar in Parliament and a great demonstration in favour of the blockade. I have quite a rough passage - a most unaccustomed experience in ...
Tuesday, August 8, 2017

I like Mussolini, very much

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According to Amazon , Enigma Books, a US imprint, is today publishing a reprint of Diary 1937-1943: The complete unabridged diaries of Count...
Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Beat writer‘s last months

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William Seward Burroughs, giant literary figure of the so-called Beat Generation, died 20 years ago today. He lived to a reasonable age give...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Tupper the tinkerer

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Earl Silas Tupper, an American tinkerer, businessman and inventor, best known for Tupperware, was born 110 years ago today. For a few years ...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

Signalling with Marconi

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‘Signalling with Marconi and Parallel-Wire systems to Lavernock Point.’ This is George Kemp’s inauspicious diary entry for 13 December 1897,...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Estonian writer’s secret drawer

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Karl Ristikivi, one of the most important Estonian writers of historical novels, died 40 years ago today. He kept a diary for a decade or so...

Diary briefs

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Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad -  Harvard University Press,   The Independent ,  Mail Online Journals of L. M. Montgomery - Rock’s Mi...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Miscegenation and lusotropicalism

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‘Could this odor really be from a burned black man? I don’t know - but this definitely gave me the chills. I never thought that such horror ...