Nigeness

 What's this then? It's All Saints, the parish church of Milton Keynes – the original Milton Keynes, that is, the charming little vi...

 Just to say that Radio 3's breakfast programme today, live from Auschwitz, was a simply wonderful broadcast, one of the finest, most be...

 A dreary, sodden day of wind and rain, with more of the same threatened, so here is something to bring a little cheer. It's an anecdote...

 In 1972 the UK government participated in the UN Stockholm Conference on the Environment, submitting a number of papers, one of them titled...

 This, believe it or not, is the great Southern writer Eudora Welty in her younger days, hamming it up for the camera (she was an excellent ...

It has become a tradition on this blog to mark the birthday (in 1832) of one of my favourite painters, the great Edouard Manet. This year...

 Just realised that I missed a Johnsonian anniversary yesterday – blame it on Blue Monday.    It was on January 20th in 1779 that David Garr...