Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Devotion, death and dissolution in Leicestershire 1

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Here is the latest of Jim Butler's Hidden Histories videos. It's about devotion, death and dissolution in Leicester and there's ...

"Bakewell is an actual place"

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Pointless is almost a mirror image of Family Fortunes, which rewarded contestants for being average not for being clever. Yet there are two ...

Cancellation of the Radical Association leadership hustings

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The first item in my last Six of the Best read: Ed Davey has pulled out of the Radical Association hustings because James Baillie was to ch...

Are the Lib Dems afraid of asking themselves searching questions?

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Back in 2018 I wrote a post under the title Forget “the Lib Dem family”: Let’s have proper leadership elections . I thought of it yesterday ...
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Monday, August 10, 2020

Village School (1940)

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Talking Pictures TV showed this the other day: This film is a tribute to Britain's women teachers, standard bearers of an education Naz...

Three early glimpses of Steve Winwood

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These are the fruits of some recent googling of this blog's musical hero. First, proof that music pulls the girls no matter what from th...
Sunday, August 09, 2020

Six of the Best 948

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Ed Davey has pulled out of the Radical Association hustings because James Baillie was to chair it: "I hope sincerely that this conduct...

The Chants: A Man Without a Face

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On Friday evening BBC4 broadcast a documentary on The Real Thing , the black Liverpool soul and funk band who enjoyed chart success in the 1...
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Saturday, August 08, 2020

The topless towers of Reculver

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Back to Kent and Reculver, the ruined church built within the footprint of a Roman fort. It is ruined because, even though it dated from Sax...

The cast and crew on Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter

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There is nothing quite like The Night of the Hunter. As Peter Kimpton has written: At its heart, the film is a children's fairy tale - ...
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Friday, August 07, 2020

Rewilding the Welland at Lubenham

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Five years ago a project to rewild the Welland through Market Harborough was completed. The river was given a more natural aspect as some o...

How the Lib Dems were trapped in the Coalition rose garden

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I've come across a paper on the Liberal Democrat experience of being in coalition with the Conservatives and of defending that record a...
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Thursday, August 06, 2020

Berkhamsted to Guildford by narrow boat in 1965

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Another video from the heroic age of canal cruising. This one starts in Berkhamsted but soon moves on to scenes that are familiar from my ch...

New charter for open spaces in England

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The Open Spaces Society has launched a new charter for England's open spaces. Phil Wadey, the society's chairman, says: "Durin...

We were once used to living with infectious diseases

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The minor Ealing comedy The Magnet from 1950 is proving to be a mine of social history. I blogged about its attitude to children playing on...
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Wednesday, August 05, 2020

Ed Davey's leadership campaign ordered to delete data

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More trouble for Ed Davey's leadership campaign. This item appeared on the Liberal Democrats' website today: A complaint has been m...
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Liberty Shoes of Leicester

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This advertisement comes from a 1945 issue of Punch. The Liberty Shoe factory, designed by H.H. Thompson and built in 1918-19, stood on East...

Six of the Best 947

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"We aren’t puritans. We aren’t miserable. We aren’t automatons. We are liberals. So why oh why is the party resorting to wringing its c...
Tuesday, August 04, 2020

A walk to the source of a buried river in East London

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John Rogers follows the course of the Cran Brook through the streets of Ilford to its source near Barkingside. He says on YouTube: We start ...

Road hauliers will soon need a permit to enter Kent

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Remember how Brexit was meant to reduce red tape? The Department of Transport has issued a document on proposed legislative amendments on en...
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