Sunday, October 1, 2017

Diary briefs

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Jack the Ripper’s diary? - Mango Books , Fox News , The Telegraph Diaries of Victoria and Abdul - Mail Online , English Heritage Jim Ma...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

The thread of my observations

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Today marks the tricentenary of the birth of Horace Walpole, the fourth Earl of Orford, and a remarkable man in many ways. He is remembered ...
Friday, September 22, 2017

Queen Elizabeth I’s navel

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‘She was clad in a dress of black taffeta, bound with gold lace, and like a robe in the Italian fashion with open sleeves and lined with cri...
Thursday, September 21, 2017

Chief atom bomb adviser

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‘We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession...

Working with Kevin

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Happy 60th birthday Kevin Rudd! I’ve no idea if the ex-prime minister of Australia has ever kept a diary, but for the length of his first te...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Many things have happened

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‘Well, here I am aboard ship and three days out of New York, waiting for a convoy at Halifax. This seems to be a fitting place to start a di...
Saturday, September 9, 2017

Not careless jottings

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James Evershed Agate, born 140 years ago today, was a leading theatre critic in the first half of the 20th century, and one of the most well...
Thursday, September 7, 2017

New Zealand’s first premier

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‘My reasons for offering myself are, simply, that there are no persons at all fit, and I believe I may be useful; but the Assembly will doub...