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Enemies Within: Anarchy!

23rd November 2024 Always Worth Saying 2426 Comments

Only the nieve might think the nighttime streets of 1894 Soho, a den of immigrants and nere-do-goods, were not already alive with talk of the events of the previous chilly February afternoon. Passers-by investigating an [more…]

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Enemies Within: Rendezvous on Windmill Street

16th November 2024 Always Worth Saying 2244 Comments

Ruffians, alone or in groups of two or three, descend from different directions along gloomy London streets on a sharp winter’s weekday night in February 1894. Amongst them is a figure in a top hat [more…]

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Ma, Ma, where’s my Pa?

12th November 2024 Going Postal 1545 Comments

I suspect that all Puffins are fervently hoping that the US Presidential Election will result in the return of the Donald to the White House. If this happens, it will be an unusual but not [more…]

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Enemies Within: A Curious Incident at The Observatory

9th November 2024 Always Worth Saying 1945 Comments

On a crisp February afternoon on a non-descript Thursday in 1894, tram conductor Mr William Smith issued a through ticket from Westminster Bridge to Greenwich. On entering the horse-drawn tram, the passenger concerned wore a [more…]

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Reparations for Slavery

4th November 2024 well_chuffed 3002 Comments

Free Gear Kier has said reparations are off the table only to find that the Commonwealth leaders have put it firmly on his table. The prediction has to be that this weakling will cave in [more…]

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Slavery

28th October 2024 well_chuffed 2956 Comments

It is reasonably well known that the UK abolished the Slave Trade in 1807 and created the West Africa Squadron in an attempt to suppress said trade worldwide. For this we are vilified these days [more…]

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A Voyage to India, 1888

22nd October 2024 Going Postal 2243 Comments

In October, 1888, Miss Kate Pettitt sailed from Liverpool to Bombay in the steamship Eden Hall.She was going to India as a governess with an English family from Manchester. The voyage took five weeks, and [more…]

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Postcard from Birmingham, Part Six

28th September 2024 Always Worth Saying 1978 Comments

In recent weeks we have allowed ourselves to be distracted by summer riots, 1980s football matches and pop concerts, the Falkland Islands and even the delivery of mail to the South Pole at Christmas. Puffins [more…]

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Postcard From Birmingham, Part Three

7th September 2024 Always Worth Saying 1780 Comments

Chamberlain Square Having checked out the Council House and Town Hall during our day trip to Birmingham, myself and Mrs AWS nip around the back and into Chamberlain Square, the centrepiece of which is the [more…]

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