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Desert Mystery: Cartoons on a wall

14th May 2025 Going Postal 1991 Comments

Recently, I acquired a set of wartime photographs sourced from a militaria dealer in Munich. The photographs are of cartoons hand-drawn across the whitewashed walls of a room. The style is typical of that seen [more…]

20th Century

A View From (Brougham Hall) Quite Near The Greenhouse; Was It All Worth It?

13th May 2025 Colin Cross 2384 Comments

I don’t doubt that my long suffering reader will have had a similar conversation to the one I had some days ago with Mrs. C. It went something like this; “Er, Colin, are there any [more…]

20th Century

The History of Pop Music – 1977

9th May 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2911 Comments

Featured song: Eagles – Hotel California 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

On this day, 1945

8th May 2025 Going Postal 2410 Comments

On this day 80 years ago, the Allied powers accepted Germany’s unconditional surrender, bringing an official end to World War II in Europe. We in the U.K. celebrate 8 May as Victory in Europe Day, [more…]

20th Century

In the Graveyard of St Nicholas, Moreton

7th May 2025 Going Postal 2427 Comments

During a visit to the Tank Museum at Bovington Camp, Dorset, with my daughter, we decided first to go to the graveyard of the Church of St Nicholas in the village of Moreton in the [more…]

19th Century

Book review: Custer’s Trials, by T.J. Stiles

6th May 2025 Going Postal 2265 Comments

Writing another biography of Custer (1839-1876) is, as Stiles says, a bit like walking round Grand Central Station trying to find a piece of floor someone hasn’t already stepped on. Such is the fascination with [more…]

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An Appreciation Of The Papacy of Francis I

3rd May 2025 Always Worth Saying 2277 Comments

Might every age get the Pope it deserves? If so, then what of the Age of Francis I? Jorge Mario Bergoglio, once Archbishop of Buenos Aires and the latest Bishop of Rome, died on Easter [more…]

20th Century

Always Worth Saying’s Railway Review

2nd May 2025 Always Worth Saying 3369 Comments

Apologies for last week’s Railway Review, which was far too populist. An article on a mineral railway in Northern Brazil is exactly the type of thing you might read about in a 1960s edition of [more…]

20th Century

Book Review: Soldaten, ‘On fighting, killing and dying’

30th April 2025 Going Postal 1908 Comments

This book, originally published in 2012, is based on the discovery of transcripts of covert surveillance of German prisoners of war in WW2, found initially in archives in Great Britain and latterly in archives in [more…]

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    Chapter 37 – Monty’s Story, the Land between the Rivers Right, let’s get a few things straight. We all realise that my species isn’t overwhelmingly loved by all members of the human race. One hundred [more...]
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