There isn't much to learn about Nellie Elizabeth Isaac online and some of it's inaccurate. But as always with the string…
Some paintings are made to pair with a poem. Read Edward Thomas's As the Team's Head Brass and then take another look…
In 1918 Australia appointed sixteen official war artists. All were men. Iso Rae - who had lived in France throughout…
All agreed that 1917 had been a sad offender. All observed that 1918 did not look promising at its birth.…
I found this on the London Library Advent calendar. Just the perfect image for anything a little Christmassy with a…
Time for some seasonal greetings from the front. The traditional Christmas message of charity, reconciliation, and peace on earth now ensured…
Hard to think of a better example of misplaced romantic nostalgia than yearning for the days before the era of…
I've been reading the quite wonderful Tirzah Garwood memoir Long Live Great Barfield - a book that deserves several posts…
Langston Hughes wrote this in 1935. It had meaning and relevance then. It still has. Read it. Let America Be…
I don't think I peeled a clove of garlic until I was at least 21. It wasn't because I didn't…
He went to school in Marlborough and loved to take long and sometimes solitary walks across the Wilshire downs. So…
Two visits in thirty days and only just scratched the surface of what this city has to offer. We parked…
Some authors are blessed with illustrators who enhance their work with the distinction of their own. So it was in…
Forgetfulness The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking…
Before the Charge The night is still and the air is keen, Tense with menace the time crawls by, In…