All Saints

In the English Civil War, aren’t we lucky not to have had another one for nearly five hundred years, for much of the time Northamptonshire was the front line between the Royalist and Parliamentary armies. Northampton itself supported the Roundheads.

Mincemeat

Duff Cooper was a competent historian – for a while his two volume biography of Haig was considered a standard.

Blue Italian

Stoke-on Trent is known here as Bertie’s birthplace, on 18th March 2019.

Accidental Journey

Loewenstein, Max Otto Ludwig. See Lynton, Mark Oliver Lawrence. (The London Gazette, 25th April 1947)

Three Worlds

What’s the point of reading fiction? These days I re-read fiction I have loved for decades and there is no point in reading anything new.