March is Dewithon Month #Dewithon. You can read about this celebration of literary Wales at the link We are all invited…
Poetry is critical to a complete understanding of the First World War because in the years leading up to and…
The Year Begins in October Armistead Maupin based his vignettes of gay life in 1970s San Francisco - Tales of…
In his series of WW1 epitaphs, Rudyard Kipling comments on the all too common fate of a new soldier at…
This post is in answer to the question "Operation Pied Piper: What were they thinking?" At least in terms of…
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say,…
Yeats wrote the poem "The Wild Swans at Coole" (see Game of Swans) in 1916 /17 when he was staying…
The Background One evening in the spring of 1919 a soldier in his uniform appeared at the front door of…
Two quite different wartime farewells at Charing Cross Station: The first is from Vera Brittain on the eve of 1915:…
It started with a tweet from yesterday morning: So off to google where I found the same inaccurate one-line biography…
Update: 15 October 2020 I've heard from Lyn who is the Project Lead for ‘Away from the Western Front’. ‘No…
They had all watched him die, in a foreign landA warning to others from the High Command. Forfeits medals (sentenced…
Tammy Duckworth is a Senator from Illinois and fourteen years ago she was a captain with the Illinois National Guard…
I thought of going back to France, but realised the absurdity of the notion. Since 1916, the fear of gas…