The Background One evening in the spring of 1919 a soldier in his uniform appeared at the front door of…
When intelligence officer Arthur Marshall was on the beach at Dunkirk in 1940 he turned to the work of Angela…
When I first became a head of school I had this daft idea that I would make personalized cut-and-paste greetings…
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Novelists and film makers often struggle to find the right period details to anchor their work in a particular era.…
Apparently it's International Cat Day (where do all these days come from?) So - as I live with an international…
Two quite different wartime farewells at Charing Cross Station: The first is from Vera Brittain on the eve of 1915:…
The sandwich was no comfort, it was a pale limp thing a long way from the déjeuner sur l'herbe of her…
As America wakes up this Sunday morning it is confronted with the horror of two major acts of domestic terrorism.…
It's hard to cut through the clutter and fog of an overcrowded political field. But Elizabeth Warren did it this…