Adullamite

Original at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. June 24th, always a day worth remembering and celebrating! Victory over the invading English ...

In spite of pressure of work I have managed to finish another book.  This one much more acceptable than the last.  During the year 1933 J.B....

It's been a bit of a bind in recent days.  My knees not being good, overdoing it on the front and scunnering myself for over a week, the...

The view the pigeons up there in the loft have includes The Old Manor House. As far as I know, there is little information regarding this bu...

Henry Canova Vollam Morton, better known as H.V. Morton, followed his father into the journalism world.  However, he became better known for...

National   The other day, when in conversation with two of what I took to be highly intelligent men, I realised once again that I live in a ...

    What the weather girls, in doors in a nice studio, call 'light rain showers,' have been falling for the last 24 hours on and off...

The proper football season did indeed begin last night, and it was quite good, as indeed expected.  Today, a stuttering first half was impro...

  I woke this morning to find the Twitter feed stuffed full of 'England expects' jingoism.  The media full of this imperialist pomp....

  It is quite normal for Scotland to go down to Wembley and win.  After all we have been doing that for almost 150 years and as we invented ...

  Waterstone's   At last, after much struggle, I have reached the end of 'Engel's England.'  Something many of us wish to ac...

I failed to cross the threshold till dusk was falling tonight.  Not for the first time my Sunday has not been what I wished it to be!  Th...

A typical scene this afternoon as England rejoices in its patron Saint!  The crowds flock together, gathering happily in throngs dresse...