20th Century
De Profundis or How Green Was My Valley?
I qualified as a public health inspector (PHI) in Hull in 1968 and after a couple of years with a rural district council in South Norfolk, at the tender age of 22 I found myself [more…]
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A History of Pop Music – Albums 1982
Featured Album: Madness – Complete Madness This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for each year and the [more…]
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Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Nine
Jinnie woke to the sound of Simone singing in French in the shower. First, she lay quiet and tried to recognise the song but it was nothing she could place. Then she realised it was [more…]
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The ‘Crockford’s Clerical’ Murder
On Sunday 6 December 1987, the Reverend Doctor Canon Gareth Vaughan Bennett returned home after spending a most agreeable weekend with friends in Cambridge. On the way he had given a colleague a lift home, [more…]
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A History of Pop Music – Albums 1981
Featured Album: Duran Duran – Duran Duran This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for each year and [more…]
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Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Eight
Jinnie woke up alone on Wednesday morning, the bolt that Fritz the porter had fitted on her bedroom door was obviously doing its job. Today was “meet the lecturers” day and for some reason, she [more…]
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A History of Pop Music – Albums 1980
Featured Album: Roxy Music – Flesh and Blood This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for each year [more…]
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Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Seven
Before the war, Hitler had commissioned Albert Speer to redesign Berlin into the “Capital of the World”, a city greater than London, Paris or Rome that he wanted to call Germania. When the war started [more…]
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The Desert War – February 1941
The second month in 1941 was not up to the joys of January for the Allies. The Germans started arriving in North Africa and the push into Libya did not go much further. There was [more…]