Books

Angela Brazil, the Tribal World of School and School Change

Scooterons-nous vite. It's Back to School with Angela Brazil Long before Harry Potter - and indeed long before all those…

5 years ago

All Hands Above Board for the Scuttlebutt

It's always fun when someone you know - a friend - has a book published. Here's Three Sheets to the…

5 years ago

Pulp Fiction Surprise

Just over 20 years ago now a teacher walked into my office and said that he had just found a…

5 years ago

Angela Brazil – Rhymes With Dazzle – at Dunkirk

When intelligence officer Arthur Marshall was on the beach at Dunkirk in 1940 he turned to the work of Angela…

5 years ago

Much Ado About Food: Kate Atkinson and Elizabeth David

Novelists and film makers often struggle to find the right period details to anchor their work in a particular era.…

5 years ago

Much Ado About Deception and Delusion: Kate Atkinson’s Transcription and London 1940

The sandwich was no comfort, it was a pale limp thing a long way from the déjeuner sur l'herbe of her…

5 years ago

Edward Bear and Stochastic Terrorism

As America wakes up this Sunday morning it is confronted with the horror of two major acts of domestic terrorism.…

5 years ago

The View from the Room

It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor…

5 years ago

Falling Wall

I began this post in 2017. The original focus was Louis MacNeice's's poem "Brother Fire". MacNeice was a fire-watcher during…

6 years ago

Alive Day and A Diary Without Dates

Tammy Duckworth is a Senator from Illinois and fourteen years ago she was a captain with the Illinois National Guard…

6 years ago