Wednesday, March 30, 2022

The Art Deco Railway: The Chessington Branch

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This video from Jago Hazzard reveals that what we know as the Chessington Branch was originally meant to be a secondary main line to Leathe...
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Saturday, March 26, 2022

The Joy of Six 1044

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"Water companies have left our rivers in an appalling state. Pumping raw sewage into them has done untold damage. Only 14 percent are c...
Wednesday, March 02, 2022

Secrets of the East: John Rogers takes us along a hidden river to a medieval shrine in Ilford

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From the YouTube blurb: Our walk today takes us once again back into the past, where the landscape reveals the deep history of this area and...

Mike Brearley turns in another great index

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One of the charity shops had a copy of Mike Brearley's book On Form , so I have another good index to celebrate. As I said when looking ...
Tuesday, March 01, 2022

Insight into the new Royal Opera House production of Peter Grimes

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Members of the cast and creative team discuss Deborah Warner’s new production of Benjamin Britten’s opera Peter Grimes ahead of its opening ...

The Joy of Six 1043

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"Failures of investigation and enforcement by the National Crime Agency and other UK state bodies have led to flawed judgments by UK co...

GUEST POST The Bielsa dream is over

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Stuart Whomsley mourns the sacking of Leeds United's manager and what it means for the club's future Leeds is a smaller place today....
Monday, February 28, 2022

Wood's of Wistanstow has ceased brewing

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Sad news from the Shropshire Star : Real ale drinkers in Shropshire are ruing the closure of a renowned county brewery in Wood's. Its cl...

Gerrard Winstanley and the oligarchs of St George's Hill

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The warning to rich Russians linked to Putin that the UK government “will come after you” and ensure oligarchs have “nowhere to hide” is lik...

28 February in Liberal England history

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So what has this blog been concerned with on what is usually the last day of February? 2021 Rosalind Franklin , the neglected pioneer of our...
Sunday, February 27, 2022

President Zelensky was the voice of Paddington

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The historian Andrew Roberts has compared Volodymyr Zelensky to Winston Churchill as a wartime leader, and we know he won the Ukranian equi...
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Freight Train: The Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group

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Skiffle was the punk of the 1950s. Suddenly anyone could form a band and play - you didn't need any formal musical education, Chas McDev...
Saturday, February 26, 2022

Malcolm Saville and the death of Dennis O'Neill

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The death of 12-year-old Dennis O'Neill on a farm in the Shropshire hills in 1945 created a national scandal and led to the reform of th...
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Friday, February 25, 2022

Derek Fowlds: A part well played

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The first episode of Yes, Minister was broadcast on 25 February 1980, which makes it a good day to mention that Talking Pictures Encore has ...

Read the Intelligence and Security Committee's report on Russian interference in British politics

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Embed from Getty Images   Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee completed its report into Russian interference in British pol...
Thursday, February 24, 2022

The Rest is History podcast on Ukraine and Russia

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If you want to understand the history of Ukraine, and its relationship with Russia in particular, then this podcast is invaluable. It was re...
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Ed Davey: Russian interference in this country must end

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The Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey issued this statement following Boris Johnson's television address to the nation this morning: At t...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

The former temperance hotel near Market Harborough station

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The radio station Harborough FM - which these days provides the best local news service - reports that 16 more buildings and locations are ...

Why is Jacob Rees-Mogg so fond of imperial measures?

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Embed from Getty Images Jacob Rees-Mogg's decision to launch a study of the economic benefits of reintroducing imperial units of measure...
Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Mark Kermode discusses Local Hero with Bill Forsyth

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Made in 2008, this short film sees Mark Kermode discussing the making of Local Hero with its director Bill Forsyth. They travel back to Penn...