Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Kollwitz’s weavers

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‘Went to the theater with Karl; saw The Weavers [. . .] I was overcome by something of the same feeling I had when I saw The Weavers for t...
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Diary briefs

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Turkish diary of a genocide - Rudaw Newly uncovered Holocaust diary - The Jerusalem Post WW2 PoW diaries published - Express & Star ...

Happy birthday, Jeffrey

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Happy birthday Jeffrey Archer, 80 today! It’s been an eventful, colourful 70 years for the best-selling author and occasional politician, wi...
Thursday, April 9, 2020

Atomic Bomb Dome

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Following the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in the Second World War, the city was left in ruins. Among those ruins close to the hy...
Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Nijinsky going mad

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One of the most famous dancers that ever lived, Vaslav Nijinsky, died 70 years ago today, three weeks after his 60th birthday. But the danc...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Poindexter, Reagan and Bush

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Thirty years ago today, John Poindexter, a US national security adviser, was convicted of conspiracy and other charges pertaining to the inf...
Friday, April 3, 2020

The father of black history

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‘Now about Woodson himself. He is the most arrogant, scornful, and depressing person I have ever been associated with. He has a virulent tem...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Dedekam, songwriter and diarist

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Sophie Dedekam, considered one of the most significant Norwegian women composers of the 19th century, was born 200 years ago. Hardly known o...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

The death of German physics

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‘I woke up during the night and had to think of all the misfortune in Germany. About Reinhold’s death, about ruined Berlin, about the terror...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

Ye firme and stable earth

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‘Being thus arived in a good harbor and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees & blessed ye God of heaven, who had brought the...