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Sir John Vanbrugh – The Supreme Schemer

3rd May 2023 Going Postal 0

Its walls and towers stare down – rather snootily it could be said – from Maze Hill, over the lesser buildings clustering round its feet on the edge of Greenwich Common. Opposite, Canary Wharf’s ghostly-looking, [more…]

Book Review

The Young H.G. Wells by Clare Tomalin. Viking: 2021

27th March 2023 Going Postal 0

I’m sure many people are familiar with H.G. Wells’ science fiction output, with novels like The War of the Worlds, The Shape of Things to Come, The Invisible Man, The Sleeper Awakes (which some have [more…]

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Long memories at Clashanimud

28th July 2022 Going Postal 0

We are often now asked to believe that European countries have no culture, or even any connection to their own pasts – that they are all lands of immigrants, blank sheets on which anything can [more…]

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Castles in the air: the restoration adventures of two young optimists and a crumbling old mansion by Judy Corbett

9th June 2022 Going Postal 0

Bit of a different style of review this time. I know there are a few who enjoy a spooky story on GP, as do I – especially when it’s one apparently based in reality. So [more…]

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Ancestors: A prehistory of Britain in seven burials, by Alice Roberts

24th May 2022 Going Postal 0

One of my favourite tv moments was when we saw Alice Roberts approach an eminent palaeontologist on site. He dropped what he was doing. ‘Hello, Alice’ he said warmly, walking towards the camera, extending her [more…]

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The Dark Side of the Moon, by John Harris

5th May 2022 Going Postal 0

This is a book which shouldn’t work – yet it kind of does. An in-depth look at one particular album from one particular band would, on the face of it, seem too niche to have [more…]

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Lee Brilleaux: rock n roll gentleman, by Zoë Howe

18th April 2022 Going Postal 0

The time is the mid 1970s. The place is Canvey Island. The band is the dynamic “proto-punk” outfit known as Dr Feelgood. (I put inverted commas round proto-punk because, although that is what some music [more…]

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Book Review: The Man Who Hated Walking, by Overend Watts

27th October 2021 Going Postal 0

Peter Overend Watts, who may be familiar to some as the ex bassist of Mott The Hoople (a band once described as looking like ‘hod-carriers in drag’ by Roger Taylor of Queen), was a rock [more…]

18th Century

Book Review: Commander

25th August 2021 Going Postal 0

Edward Pellew is a name which will be familiar to many who have read Giles Milton’s marvellous book, ‘White Gold’, about the Barbary white slave trade. That book recounts the life of Thomas Pellow, a [more…]

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