Nigeness

I wonder if anyone reading this remembers The Elizabethan (originally The Young Elizabethan ), a 'magazine for teenagers' that flo...

Food for thought from Henry Hobhouse's Seeds of Wealth...  If rubber had never been developed from a product harvested in the wild in So...

Richard Wilbur, in the opening poem of his final collection, Anterooms , remembers his late, much loved wife... The House Sometimes, on wa...

All Souls Day – and what better way to mark it than with Schubert's Litanei , surely one of his most beautiful songs? Fischer-Dieskau...

Apart from shared membership of the human race, my father had but one thing in common with Marcel Proust – a fascination with that endless...

'A modern blight sees history through a prism (or fog) that distorts much of the past, not because of often obvious absurdities, but bec...

The other day I visited, for the first time, Old St Pancras' Church and its graveyard, hard by the great Victorian railway terminus na...