To War with Whitaker

“If you buy one more book this year, do make it To War with Whitaker” wrote Dirk Bogarde in The Daily Telegraph in 1994. His advice holds true today.

It’s Saturday it’s …

“It’s Saturday, It’s Lemons Day” was a sponsored programme on Radio Eirann when I was a child. I think it promoted sherbet lemons, a nourishing boiled sweet.

Lost in the Apennines

You probably thought John Verney did the dust jacket for his book. I wondered and he didn’t.

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A Man of Many Parts

One of the four physicians hoping to carve up Anne Greene was Ralph Bathurst, a man of many parts.

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News from the Dead

In 1650, at Oxford Castle, Anne Greene was hanged for infanticide.

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Sir John Verney, Bt.

Yesterday’s post gives, I hope, a tantalising glimpse of a Renaissance man: Sir John Verney, Bt. His obituary, in The Times 5th February 1993, fills out the picture.