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Women Artists of WW1: Nellie Isaac

There isn't much to learn about Nellie Elizabeth Isaac online and some of it's inaccurate. But as always with the string…

7 years ago

A Perfect Match

Some paintings are made to pair with a poem. Read Edward Thomas's As the Team's Head Brass and then take another look…

7 years ago

Women Artists of WW1: Iso Rae

In 1918 Australia appointed sixteen official war artists. All were men. Iso Rae - who had lived in France throughout…

7 years ago

Night Patrol

All agreed that 1917 had been a sad offender. All observed that 1918 did not look promising at its birth.…

7 years ago

Images for Winter and a Winter Robin

I found this on the London Library Advent calendar. Just the perfect image for anything a little Christmassy with a…

7 years ago

Holiday Greetings from 1917

Time for some seasonal greetings from the front. The traditional Christmas message of charity, reconciliation, and peace on earth now ensured…

7 years ago

On the Disadvantages of Central Heating

Hard to think of a better example of misplaced romantic nostalgia than yearning for the days before the era of…

7 years ago

What The Living Do

I've been reading the quite wonderful Tirzah Garwood memoir Long Live Great Barfield - a book that deserves several posts…

7 years ago

Let America Be America Again

Langston Hughes wrote this in 1935.  It had meaning and relevance then. It still has. Read it. Let America Be…

7 years ago

Ode to Garlic

I don't think I peeled a clove of garlic until I was at least 21. It wasn't because I didn't…

7 years ago

All the hills and vales along

He went to school in Marlborough and loved to take long and sometimes solitary walks across the Wilshire downs. So…

7 years ago

Two Trips to Newburgh

Two visits in thirty days and only just scratched the surface of what this city has to offer. We parked…

7 years ago

Richard Aldington and Paul Nash: Images of War

Some authors are blessed with illustrators who enhance their work with the distinction of their own. So it was in…

7 years ago

Forgetfulness

Forgetfulness The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking…

7 years ago

Before The Charge: The Great Push, Loos, September 1915

Before the Charge The night is still and the air is keen, Tense with menace the time crawls by, In…

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