George Orwell had an interesting chance encounter with a blasé conspiracy theorist at the Café Royal in 1940. (See left). The young…
When intelligence officer Arthur Marshall was on the beach at Dunkirk in 1940 he turned to the work of Angela…
Novelists and film makers often struggle to find the right period details to anchor their work in a particular era.…
The sandwich was no comfort, it was a pale limp thing a long way from the déjeuner sur l'herbe of her…
I began this post in 2017. The original focus was Louis MacNeice's's poem "Brother Fire". MacNeice was a fire-watcher during…
1940 has been well served by blockbuster movies this past year. Last summer there was Dunkirk as legendary saga and…
I'm not giving anything away by quoting the deep irony of the last lines of Saplings: Turns you over, don’t…
After early mist the morning of Sunday August 18 1940 was bright with clear skies. It came to be known…
The land army fights in the fields. It is in the fields of Britain that the most critical battle of…
Blackbirds are notorious for being able to mimic the sounds they hear as they hop about the celestial chimney pots…