WW1

An Age of Marvels

If there’s any doubt that we are living in an age of marvels just read these accounts of what happened…

12 years ago

My First and Last Poppy: Evermore and Nevermore

In Memory of Lance Corporal Frank Herbert Sims. Royal Army Medical Corps who died on 28 January 1919 Age 34 Son…

12 years ago

The Price

Thanks to my Twitter feed I saw this short BBC news piece about recently discover aerial photographs of the battlefields…

14 years ago

With the Guns

With school closed for the day there was time for a walk. Buttercup Farm Sanctuary off Route 82 just north…

15 years ago

“And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds”.

Ninety years since the end of the First World War. Passengers at Paddington station on Armistice Day, 11 November 1919.…

16 years ago

The Book is Dead: Long Live the Book

And they smell good and feel good too! In a fascinating article in the current New York Review of Books…

16 years ago

Regeneration

This July marks the ninetieth anniversary of the start of third Ypres - better known as the battle of Passchendaele…

17 years ago