Friday, November 18, 2016

Books I have been reading: Mary Russell Mitford's Our Village

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There are a few books that one finishes and the immediate thought is when can I read this again. Mary Russell Mitford's sequence of sk...
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Friday, October 14, 2016

Nine hundred and fifty years ago

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October is full of battle anniversaries and this one is extremely important. The history of this country and, let us not mince matters...
Saturday, October 08, 2016

A naval battle that changed history

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Yes, I am talking about the Battle of Lepanto , which took place 445 years ago yesterday. Sorry to have missed the exact anniversary but it ...
Tuesday, October 04, 2016

Back to Birmingham

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The Conservative Party's conference this year, as readers of this blog know, is in Birmingham. They were there in 2008 when I wrote a...
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Friday, September 30, 2016

Books I have been reading: Elisabeth Ayrton's The Cookery of England

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It is a long time since this blog has had an entry about cookery books and their history. Indeed, it is too long since this blog has had a...
Saturday, September 17, 2016

September 17, 1939

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One could argue that this has little to do with conservative history except that the government of this country in 1939 was Conservative und...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Channon on his own intrigues

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In view of my plans to campaign for the publication of the full version of Chips Channon's diaries I have started re-reading them. I hav...
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