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Monday, June 30, 2025

The earliest literary diary

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It is one thousand and eighty years since the death of Ki no Tsurayuki, a nobleman and poet renowned for his erudition and skills in Chinese...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Charlie instead of Concord

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‘[Suu Kyi] came back after a hot trek in the sun to some village or other smelling strongly of cheap scent. It’s usual for enthusiastic ladi...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Kentucky and Tennessee both gone

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‘This morning there comes a dispatch from Chattanooga stating that the enemy had taken Fort Donelson. Generals Pillow, Floyd, Buckner with t...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

State-created crime

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One Rev. John William Horsley was born 170 years ago today. Although not much remembered, he was a social reformer of great character - as m...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Early South African diary

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Adam Tas is remembered today not only as a key figure in early Cape Colony history but also as the author of what is often considered South ...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Remarks and collections

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Thomas Hearne, Oxford scholar and librarian, died all of 290 years ago today. He is highly regarded for his editions of historical works whi...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Dallam travels to Constantinople

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‘The 11th day, being Tuesday, we carried our instrument over the water to the Grand Signor’s Court, called the Seraglio, and there in his mo...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

By golly, what a day!

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‘By golly, what a day! It is seldom that days which one has anticipated in imagination for weeks or months ever measure up to one’s expectat...
Friday, May 23, 2025

I was rather incredulous

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‘He explained his call to my astonishment that Beadle, Tatum, and I were to be the co-recipients of the Nobel prize in medicine this year. I...
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