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.
All Hallows by the Tower This is Mark Lane looking north; a soulless, sunless, narrow canyon. None of these buildings existed when I started working here in 1976.
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.
Houghton Conquest Houghton, pronounced how-tun, Conquest is an ancient settlement pre-dating the Domesday Book.
Imperial War Museum The Imperial War Museum was founded in 1917 and most remarkably has retained its name.