Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Father of the railways

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‘Twenty years ago these projects, or rather that from this coal district, was of much interest to my mind and its completion in 1825 may be ...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

I got another one down

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Edward Corringham ‘Mick’ Mannock, a top British fighter pilot in the First World War (the most remarkable fighter ace of all time according ...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Death of the Romanovs

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One hundred years ago today the Russian imperial Romanov family and its attendants, all under house arrest at Ekaterinburg 1,000 km east of ...
Saturday, July 14, 2018

A dishcloth round my soul

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‘I look through my diary notes from work on A Dream Play [Strindberg], not very encouraging reading. I was in bad shape, uneasy, dejected, ...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Nanda’s views on planning

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Gulzarilal Nanda, a Punjabi politician twice interim prime minister of India, was born 120 years ago today. As a young follower of Gandhi, h...

Blatant self-seekers

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’I am very fond of John. He was a very capable PM, making the economy the best ever. However, the modern Tory Party is top-heavy with shallo...
Thursday, June 28, 2018

Nobody to dig the graves

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‘On the 19th of May, died Erich Hansen Li, who, throughout the voyage, had been very industrious and willing, and had neither offended anyon...
Friday, June 22, 2018

Carrying their gas masks

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‘We saw a sign of the times tonight: I had some shopping to do and my husband ran me down in the car. We came back by a lane that has always...
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Diaries of a musical theorist

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‘D-minor Quartet of Schoenberg, by [the] Rosé [Quartet]. A single, long-drawn-out atrocity! If there were such a thing as criminals in the r...