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D H Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover was first published in its entirety in the UK on 10 November 1960, and the first run of the 200,000 […]

During the course of the year while I have been writing my #52Ancestors posts, I have tried to look at characters in my extended family who […]

On 8 November 1987 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb exploded near the town’s war memorial during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony, […]

On this date in 1783, highwayman John Austin was hanged at Tyburn for robbing and murdering John Spicer on the road to London. The village of Tyburn […]

And so, the return trip from Canada to London Heathrow Terminal 5 has begun. Due to the additions to my Canadian lecturing plans, I first have […]

‘….the fifth of November, Gunpowder treason and plot, I see no reason why gunpowder treason, Should ever be forgot’. On this day in 1605, the conspirator […]

Sometimes I really wonder whether it’s me or you who is ’round the bend’, ‘crackers’, ‘a few planks short of a load’…. I thought it was […]

And so, having sat pixie-fashion on the floor in arrivals for just a few moments, Elizabeth spotted my bright purple case on the carousel, I pressed […]

… does it take to get me from Toronto to Ottawa? Well, I would have thought just the one. But yesterday, it would seem that two […]