Family
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Precipice: Robert Harris novel sheds new light on PM Asquith’s affair with Venetia Stanley
It’s unbelievable. Britain’s wartime cabinet was meeting in 1915 to plan the Dardanelles campaign that was…
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When did a roof box become a family holiday essential?
“This will go down as the year of the roof box,” declared Tom Peck in The…
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Goodbye to Richmond
I’m feeling nostalgic, and a little sad. I’m about to say a fond farewell to one…
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(Not) Hanging on the Telephone
‘We’ll never forget the magic of a landline’, Viv Groskop wrote in The Guardian on Friday…
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Kenneth Grange: the designer who made the InterCity 125 HST an icon
British Rail’s High Speed Train caused a sensation when it burst onto the scene in October…
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Remembering my Nan, 30 years on
It’s hard to believe that my grandmother, Nan, died 30 years ago today. It’s seems like…
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‘Don’t tell him, Pike!’ Remembering Ian Lavender from Dad’s Army
Note: I published this blogpost a year ago, but accidentally unpublished it a couple of months…
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Echoes of 1939
Some years are associated with tragedy and the horror of war. For example,1914: the year the…
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Cycling into 2024
As another year begins, I’m looking forward to new cycling adventures, including my first bike tour…