20th Century
The History of Pop Music – 1982
Featured song: Madness – Madness – House of Fun This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped [more…]
20th Century
20th Century
The Great Escape Remembered
The 24th March 2019 was the 75th anniversary of The Great Escape, a reminder of a different age when men made terrible sacrifices and displayed incredible bravery to gift us seventy years of relative freedom [more…]
20th Century
The Voyage of the James Caird – Landfall and the Crossing of South Georgia
Fourteen days after leaving Elephant Island, the crew of the James Caird surveyed the coast of South Georgia, looking for a place to land. They were demented by thirst, frozen with exposure and weak from [more…]
20th Century
The History of Pop Music – 1981
Featured song: Squeeze – Labelled With Love This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. [more…]
19th Century
Lest we remember
The 1813 Battle of Leipzig is known in Germany as the Battle of the Nations (Völkerschlacht). It was greatest fight in European history prior to World War I, with nearly 400,000 Russian, Prussian, Austrian and [more…]
20th Century
The Voyage of the James Caird – Elephant Island and the Passage to South Georgia
Elephant Island is an ice-covered mountainous island off the coast of Antarctica in the outer reaches of the South Shetland Islands, in the Southern Ocean. Its name was given by early explorers sighting elephant seals [more…]
20th Century
The History of Pop Music – 1980
Featured song: Blondie – Call me This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. One [more…]
20th Century
Emmet Dalton and the raid on Mountjoy Prison
This is a story about one of the rebels against British rule over Ireland and about one incident in that rebellion in the early 20th century. Emmet Dalton was born in the United States in [more…]
20th Century
The History of Pop Music – 1979
Featured song: Pink Floyd – Another Brick In The Wall – Live This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 [more…]