Sunday, March 1, 2020

Strachey's new biography

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Lytton Strachey, a key member of the Bloomsbury Group credited with re-inventing biography, was born 140 years ago today. Though not a commi...
Friday, February 21, 2020

Accompanied by ghost

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‘[. . .] We enter the Reflector Dome in garden. They begin showing Venus, though it was low; no clamping; no clockwork; with powder of 170. ...

Bader ‘squirted’ him

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’Tea here with Douglas Bader who described his adventures yesterday with the rear gunner of a Dornier who bailed out and got caught in the t...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

In a hammock with Brahms

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‘I bought a strong hammock yesterday, and Brahms and I went into the lovely beech-wood and hung it up between two trees, on a spot from whic...
Monday, February 17, 2020

The slander of inquisitors

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Giordano Bruno - described as an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, cosmological theorist, and Hermetic occultist - ...
Saturday, February 15, 2020

See slavery as it is

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‘People tell me just go South once, & see Slavery as it is, & then you will talk very differently. I can assure all such, that conta...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Klemperer collecting life

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Today, it is 60 years since the death of Victor Klemperer, author of one of the most famous diaries to have documented the horrors of the Na...
Monday, February 10, 2020

The mud of Dakar Bay

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Alex Comfort, a scientist and the famed author of the sex manual The Joy of Sex , was born a century ago today. In fact, he wrote many books...