Showing posts with label L. du Garde Peach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label L. du Garde Peach. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 04, 2026

Alwyn Turner on the political radicalism of L. du Garde Peach

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I'm enjoying Alwyn Turner's new book A Shellshocked Nation: Britain Between the Wars , and not just because my name turns up in the ...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

A podcast on Ladybird Books and L. du Garde Peach

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We should soon have the answer to the question of who murdered the Princes in the Tower.  A YouTube channel says it will be posting the Seco...
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Thursday, December 22, 2022

Jonathan Lemalu and Winchester Cathedral Choir: Three Kings from Persian Lands Afar

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This is a 19th-century German carol by the composer Peter Cornelius. It became increasingly popular in Britain as the 20th century progresse...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

In defence of Peter, Jane and Ladybird's history books

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As a video recently posted here went a long way to demonstrate, Ladybird Books were about the most progressive post-war publishers of child...
Saturday, July 27, 2019

Two Leicester exhibitions: Ladybird Books and the Imperial Typewriters strike

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I braved the rain and went into Leicester today to visit two exhibitions. The first was The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Art...
Thursday, February 07, 2019

Six of the Best 849

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Populists like to blame elites, but from Israel to Britain to the United States their crusade against hardworking civil servants is underm...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Great Hucklow celebrates King George V's Silver Jubilee in 1935

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These gorgeous scenes of Great Hucklow capture the Derbyshire village's preparations for the celebration of King George V's Silve...