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The ‘Crockford’s Clerical’ Murder

10th March 2021 bobo 0

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…]

20th Century

A History of Pop Music – Albums 1981

5th March 2021 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

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…]

20th Century

Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Eight

5th March 2021 Going Postal 0

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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Edward, Piers And Isabella. And Hugh, Too

3rd March 2021 bobo 0

On the morning of 19th June 1312, as reckoned by the old style Calendar, a party of mounted men left Warwick Castle. My Lords Leicester and Warwick rode in front on nobly caparisoned destriers, with [more…]

Martianonlooker, Going Postal
19th Century

John Scott Russell

3rd March 2021 Going Postal 0

Imagine, if you will, that you have decided to go for a horse ride along a canal towpath. You see a canal barge making its way along the canal and in front of the barge [more…]

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Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War Part 5

28th February 2021 1642again 0

The Corcyran Stasis as a Template for Civil Strife and War While one might characterise the main theme of Thucydides’ work to be the gradual breakdown of Athens, its constitution, character, morality and eventually its [more…]

20th Century

A History of Pop Music – Albums 1980

26th February 2021 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

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…]

20th Century

Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Seven

26th February 2021 Going Postal 0

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…]

20th Century

The Desert War – February 1941

25th February 2021 well_chuffed 0

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…]

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