Poetry

Blackberry and Apple Crumble

If we had some bacon we could have bacon and eggs but we've got no eggs. That First World War…

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Bitter Strawberries

     Farm work is one of the best jobs for getting to know people as they really are. The…

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My gaze is clear as a sunflower

Paul Nash's fascination with aerial bombardment led him to an ecstatic vision of “the sky blossoming with floating flowers”. This,…

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Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high

Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge...…

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Partition

"I was so rushed I had not time to go into the details,"  - Cyril Ratcliffe. The political leaders of…

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The Land Girl

The land army fights in the fields. It is in the fields of Britain that the most critical battle of…

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August 1914

August 1914 What in our lives is burnt In the fire of this? The heart’s dear granary? The much we…

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MCMXIV

MCMXIV Those long uneven lines Standing as patiently As if they were stretched outside The Oval or Villa Park, The…

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The Good Life

Did you have times like these in your life? Times that you look back on with a sense of loss…

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The Golf Links

The Manumit School was an experimental Christian socialist boarding school in Pawling, NY. and later Bristol, Pennsylvania. Manumit means freedom and…

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