Showing posts with label Queen Victoria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Queen Victoria. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 02, 2026

Back to Sandy Campbell and Tsar Nicholas II

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My great great grandmother's brother Sandy Campbell, as we have seen, was the subject of an article in The Sphere (13 October 1900). Th...
Saturday, July 18, 2026

Another myth exploded: Queen Victoria and the lesbians

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Embed from Getty Images The Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885 outlawed "gross indecency" between but made no mention of relation...
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

"His glamour tarnished, his boorishness came to notice": On being the monarch's second son

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Embed from Getty Images Being the second son of a monarch is a difficult career, because you cease to be of use to the family firm – assumin...
Thursday, June 18, 2026

In which my great great grandmother's brother stuffs a ptarmigan

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I've written before about my great great grandmother's brother Sandy Campbell - about how his dog Sir William Wallace and how the l...
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Saturday, May 30, 2026

Victorian schoolboys were not at all Victorian

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Embed from Getty Images Here's more grist for my theory that the Victorians were far less Victorian than we imagine. In Uppingham the ot...
Friday, October 03, 2025

The Joy of Six 1417

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"Muscular patriotism of the flag waving variety marries rather well with aggressive nationalism - and we’re seeing quite a bit of that ...
Friday, August 29, 2025

Did Victoria and John Brown have a child and did my family know?

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Regular readers will know that my great great grandmother's siblings Sandy Campbell and Johanna Campbell were both trusted servants to...
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Friday, June 27, 2025

Johanna Campbell, my great great grandmother's sister and housekeeper to Queen Victoria at Glas-allt-Shiel

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My great great grandmother Jane Clark Campbell died at the age of 22, having had a son with one Alexander Calder. We've seen plenty abou...
Monday, April 28, 2025

Victorian photography and some top Victorian snark

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Tom Crewe writes about 19th-century photography in the London Review of Books - Camille Silvy was an early and fashionable practitioner of...
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Monday, March 10, 2025

Ed Davey urges Starmer to visit Canada to show support for Mark Carney in his stand against Trump

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From the Guardian live politics blog this morning: Last night Mark Carney, the formconer governor of the Bank of England, was elected leade...
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Sunday, February 02, 2025

Sandy Campbell, his dog and Queen Victoria

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Of all Her Majesty's Highland servants and ghillies, and there are some forty or more all told, Sandy Campbell and Donald Stewart are th...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

In which Queen Victoria calls on my great great great grandmother

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I thought I would have a search for my great great grandmother's brother Sandy Campbell in the British Newspaper Archive, and I struck ...
Sunday, January 21, 2024

The Joy of Six 1197

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Victoire Ingabire Umahoza , leader of the opposition in Rwanda, explains why UK government's rhetoric is misleading and Rwanda is far fr...
Thursday, January 12, 2023

The Joy of Six 1102

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"Becoming conservative requires the means, and it's the Conservatives who are frustrating the acquisition of means. And so the cons...
Monday, September 12, 2022

The world of chess has been rocked to its foundations

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Embed from Getty Images Absolute scenes in world chess. First, the Georgian former women's world champion Nona Gaprindashvili has won a...
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Saturday, January 09, 2021

A difficult year: Lord Bonkers in 2020

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Putting my life back in order will be more of an undertaking, but I can at least start returning Liberal England to normality. So let's ...
Wednesday, December 09, 2020

Gladstone's son played football for Scotland

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Embed from Getty Images We have seen William Henry Gladstone, the Grand Old Man's eldest child, twice before. As a small boy he amused Q...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

Exploring Royal Deeside in 1959

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This is a nice find. In a film made in 1959 for the Scottish Educational Film Association, two children follow the River Dee upstream from A...
Thursday, July 16, 2020

Dame Judi Dench backs struggling Twycross Zoo

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For the first time, our Headline of the Day Award goes to the Hinckley Free Press . The judges are well aware that it's many years since...
Sunday, February 09, 2020

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Congratulations to the Duke of Sussex

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A characteristically trenchant entry, which sheds unexpected light on the Whitechapel murders of 1888. Wednesday Congratulations to th...