Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Revolutionary, prime minister, author

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Volodymyr Vynnychenko, a key figure in the early 20th century history of Ukraine, was born 140 years ago today. However, after failing to wi...
Saturday, July 25, 2020

Cannon out of the River

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‘Went on the Ice about 8 o’clock in the morning & proceeded so cautiously that before night we got over three sleds & were so lucky ...
Friday, July 24, 2020

Scott’s literary property

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Zelda Fitzgerald, wife and muse of the great American novelist, Scott Fitzgerald, was born 120 years ago today. The couple married young, an...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

A real companion and friend

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It’s 70 years to the day since William Lyon Mackenzie King died. He was one of the leading Canadian politicians of the 20th century, having ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Pen & Sword diaries

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A newly published diary from Pen & Sword Books tells the story of Anthony Barne, a young soldier who started the Second World War as a c...
Sunday, July 12, 2020

The ‘father’ of US naval ordnance

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Rear-admiral John A. Dahlgren - sometimes dubbed the ‘father of American naval ordnance’ - died 150 years ago today. He joined the US Navy a...
Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Arctic Sea adventure

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, famous around the world for his fictional creation Sherlock Holmes, died 90 years ago today. As a young man, still s...
Saturday, July 4, 2020

The ‘canali’ of Mars

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Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli, the Italian astronomer, died one hundred and ten years ago today. He is particularly remembered for his obse...
Friday, July 3, 2020

Desperately serious living

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‘I am giving the girlhood which I remember, the dominant feelings, the most earnest efforts. As I look over the diaries of the time, the fir...
Monday, June 29, 2020

The game of literary cryonics

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‘It’s a private Journal. No one has ever seen a page of it. And the question remains - why do I write it? I suppose, subconsciously, anyone ...