London Calling

Graves at the Arras British cemetery. There are about three thousand graves here. It took Marilyn, Alice, Emily, Abigail and myself well o...

During November this year some archaeologists and a few volunteers obtained a grant of £10,000 from The Heritage Lottery Fund to excava...

The village of of Selborne seen from Selborne Hangar. Hampshire countryside. James Austen's grave at Steventon Church. Steventon cro...

TED HUGHES AND SYLVIA PLATH Ted Hughes has been commemorated recently by having a plaque placed in, Poets Corner, in the southern transept o...

Having a nice cup of tea in Twinings on The Strand. Between Saturday the 5th March 1814 and Tuesday the 8th March 1814, Jane Austen was wor...

IT'S ABI'S BIRTHDAY (She is 11 years old today.) It is Armistice Day today. At 11 o'clock we will have a two minutes silence to...

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First Wor...