George Mallory on Everest
Reading Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis last year, really fired my interest on …
My mind is in a state of constant rebellion
George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 or 9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who took part in the …
“I know of these romantic friendships of the English and the Germans”
I know of these romantic friendships of the English and the Germans. They are not Latin. I think they are very good …
A Single Man
An extract from “A Single Man” by Christopher Isherwood (1964) … What it sees there isn’t so much a face as the …
England expects
England expects that every man will do his duty …was a signal sent by Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson from his …
Amidst the devastation of Ypres
Pat Barker has, for a long time, been one of the British contemporary writers I most admire. I first came across her …
No lords, fiddlers, judges, or dancing-masters
[tweetmeme source="hellomilo] I recently finished Gullivers Travels which I must say I thoroughly enjoyed. I’m amazed it took me quite so many …