20th Century
My Legends of Pop Music – Part One – Buddy Holly
My Legends of Pop Music – Part One – Buddy Holly I suppose we must define pop music; I would agree with one view from Wiki which says it is a genre of popular music [more…]
History
20th Century
Behind the Bamboo Curtain, Part Two
My uncle was a staff reporter for the Manchester Evening News from the late 1940s until his death in 1973. The following is from a series of articles in which he describes his extensive visit [more…]
20th Century
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1999
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1999 Featured Album: The Party Album – Vengaboys This is the last in a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to 1999. Just cannot go on [more…]
20th Century
Behind the Bamboo Curtain, Part One
My uncle was a staff reporter for the Manchester Evening News from the late 1940s until his death in 1973. The following is from a series of articles in which he describes his extensive visit [more…]
History
Arts
A Rose by Any Other Name – A Beginner’s Guide to Perfumes
Even before I became obsessed with plants, I was fascinated by perfumes. As a small child, working on the premise that more is more, I remember mixing several bottles of my mother’s precious scents into [more…]
20th Century
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1998
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1998 Featured Album: Life Thru a lens – Robbie Williams This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to 1999. Just cannot go on that [more…]
20th Century
Book Review: Silent Village, Robert Pike
There have been a number of books on the disaster that overran Oradour-sur-Glane on Saturday June 10th 1944 but this is the first one that I have read that finely details the lives of the [more…]
20th Century
The Desert War – June 1941
And so to June, the first anniversary of the Desert War and it was a hot month in more ways than one in Libya and Egypt. There is also a small report on East Africa [more…]