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19th Century

Crimean War, Part Six

20th January 2022 Going Postal 0

In 1954, as the centenary of the end of the Crimean War approached, my uncle John Alldridge produced a series of articles for the Manchester Evening News which vividly described that campaign. In this article, [more…]

19th Century

Crimean War, Part Five

13th January 2022 Going Postal 0

In 1954, as the centenary of the end of the Crimean War approached, my uncle John Alldridge produced a series of articles for the Manchester Evening News which vividly described that campaign. In this article, [more…]

19th Century

Crimean War, Part Four

6th January 2022 Going Postal 0

In 1954, as the centenary of the end of the Crimean War approached, my uncle John Alldridge produced a series of articles for the Manchester Evening News which vividly described that campaign. In this article, [more…]

19th Century

Crimean War, Part Three

30th December 2021 Going Postal 0

In 1954, as the centenary of the end of the Crimean War approached, my uncle John Alldridge produced a series of articles for the Manchester Evening News which vividly described that campaign. In this article, [more…]

19th Century

Crimean War, Part Two

23rd December 2021 Going Postal 0

In 1954, as the centenary of the end of the Crimean War approached, my uncle John Alldridge produced a series of articles for the Manchester Evening News which vividly described that campaign. In this article, [more…]

19th Century

Crimean War, Part One

16th December 2021 Going Postal 0

In 1954, as the centenary of the end of the Crimean War approached, my uncle John Alldridge produced a series of articles for the Manchester Evening News which vividly described that campaign. In this article, [more…]

Arts

Eastern Tide Meets Western Shore – Part Two

8th September 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Aleppo ‘No, Monsieur. I have only two other passengers – both English. A colonel from India, and a young English lady from Baghdad. Does Monsieur require anything?’ Monsieur demanded a small bottle of Perrier. Five [more…]

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Eastern Tide Meets Western Shore – Part One

27th July 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong hills. The equator runs across these highlands a hundred miles to the north, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six [more…]

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Who Lost the 2020 Armenian-Azerbaijani War?

3rd December 2020 Going Postal 0

To explain the nuance of the above question; clearly the Armenians have lost the war, and while there have begun to be breakdowns of what exactly happened, which I will shortly summarise, the question remains: [more…]

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