Category: History

The Secret Annexe

A friend who read my anthology of diary entries in Advent and Epiphany recommends The Secret Annexe. The title references Anne Frank’s, The Secret Annex, a collection of fiction and non-fiction written while she was in hiding during the Nazi occupation of Holland.

From Rags to Riches

The OSCE has fifty-seven member States with more than a billion people in North America, Europe and Asia. In 1990, OSCE participating States pledged to hold free and fair elections (and to invite foreign observers to observe its elections).

Hughenden Revisited

28th May 1898; Queen Victoria attends William Gladstone’s State funeral in Westminster Abbey,

Epiphany IV

“Sculpture/Relief. The Adoration of Magi. The figures, dressed in sixteenth century costume, are grouped in an architectural setting with a vault over them. In the centre of the vault is a star surrounded by five cherub’s heads, flanked by groups of a single angel and three angels reading. There are traces of blue paint in… Continue reading Epiphany IV

Advent Calendar: 24th December

24th December 1664 “Having sat up all night to past two o’clock this morning, our porter, being appointed, comes and tells us that the bellman tells him that the star is seen upon Tower Hill; so I, that had been all night setting in order all my old papers in my chamber, did leave off… Continue reading Advent Calendar: 24th December

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