Wednesday, August 29, 2018

The Loud Bassoon

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Fred Bason - not a name much remembered - was born 110 years ago today. He was proudly Cockney, and though unskilled and formally uneducated...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Rushing through the water

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‘Still the strong wind and we expect to sight the ‘Farallones’ lighthouse this afternoon. It is so exciting rushing through the water, when ...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Guilty of murder

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‘I was at my post by 8 a.m. Two men have died, one after a trepanning operation, the other when he was being carried to the operating-table....
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Vere Hunt in a crashing machine

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‘Set out at two o’clock for Tipperary . . . Soon after I had the misfortune to find myself in a crashing machine, for, crash went the front ...
Monday, August 6, 2018

Einstein’s wonderful day

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‘One of the finest days of my life. Radiant skies. Toledo like a fairy tale. An enthusiastic old man, who had supposedly written something o...
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 ...