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Saturday, November 29, 2025

The father of neurology

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‘The floor is made of tile mosaics as are the walls - no seat - only a hole which seems narrow to me at ground level. One has to be agile - ...
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Monday, November 24, 2025

We hope for better times

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‘Our Co for the first time have the sad duty to perform of burying one of their number. Jane is also quite sick of a Diareah but we hope not...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Comarnescu and Eugene O’Neil

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Petru Comarnescu, one of the most original Romanian critics and cultural historians of the twentieth century, was born 120 years ago today. ...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

The gay diaries of Mr Lucas

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‘Today I was tried before a brigadier and four other officers - a very shattering ordeal, in the latter part of which I felt sick and ill. T...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Sense and senselessness

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Today marks the centenary of the birth of Zygmunt Bauman. He published prolifically across the spectrum of sociology and social theory, and ...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Men racing in tubs with paddles

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‘After luncheon we all adjourned to the Liane where there were some rural sports going on - men racing in tubs with paddles - then walking a...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

If these pages survive me

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‘I write because I cannot stop writing; it is the last habit that still feels like freedom. If these pages survive me, let them tell only th...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Found mine field with Bosch notice

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‘Started forward at 6 a.m. H plus ½ hour. Heavy fog. Found men coming back and took them along with me. Heavy fire all around from m.g. Foun...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

The bishop in Buganda

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James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, was shot dead 140 years ago today, with his own rifle, executed - along with 50 or so...
Sunday, October 19, 2025

Live ten times happier

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Jonathan Swift, that great Anglo-Irish satirist, man of pamphlets, died 280 years ago. His name is best remembered for Gulliver’s Travels , ...
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