The Old Days

The following link is to an article I wrote for the June 2024 edition of Wooster Sauce - The Journal of the P.G.Wodehouse Society  on the...

The following link is to an article I wrote for the September 2024 edition of Wooster Sauce - The Journal of the P.G.Wodehouse Society ...

The following link is to an article I wrote for the December 2024 edition of Wooster Sauce - The Journal of the P.G.Wodehouse Society  on...

This is the link to a short article on surviving stone alcoves from Old London Bridge which were dispersed when the bridge was...

An article on Portland Stone written for Best of British Magazine, May 2024 Link to article

This is the link to a short article on St Antholin's Church Spire which I wrote for the November 2023 Journal of the London...

A history of the lava lamp written for Best of British Magazine - September 2022. Link to article

Following is a link to an article I wrote for the May 2022 edition of Best of British nostalgia magazine on football during WW-II. Link...

The following link is to an article I wrote for the September 2022 edition of Wooster Sauce - The Journal of the P.G.Wodehouse Society ...

The following link is to an article I wrote for the December 2021 edition of Wooster Sauce - The Journal of the P.G.Wodehouse Society on...

This is a link to an article on the writing partnership of Frank Muir and Denis Norden I wrote for the February 2022 edition of Best of...

Following is a link to an article I wrote for the August 2021 edition of Best of British nostalgia magazine on the actor George Arliss....

The following link is to an article I wrote for the September 2021 edition of Wooster Sauce - The Journal of the P.G.Wodehouse Society ...

The following link is to an article I wrote for the June 2020 edition of Wooster Sauce - The Journal of the P.G.Wodehouse Society on the...

When Bertie Wooster was fined five of the best for knocking a policeman's helmet off on Boat Race Night he was part of a century-long...

The following link is to an article I wrote for the September 2019 edition of Wooster Sauce - The Journal of the P.G.Wodehouse Society on...

Below is a link to an article I wrote for "The Gazette" which is the journal of The Wolfe Pack the official literary society devoted to...

Letter-writing enjoyed a renaissance during World War II. Letters became the only means of communication between friends and family...

A miscellany of links to other websites. The photograph is of Louis Cartigny (1791-1892) the last surviving combatant in the Battle of Trafalgar (1805). It is taken from BabalColour on Twitter (@StuartHumphryes) who has many other historic photographs Another striking photograph from @StuartHumphryes taken in the 1850's. A witness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln 1865 appears on 1956 Game Show "I've Got A Secret" Another eye-witness account (audio) of the assassinatio

Assorted quotes from miscellaneous sources. The Spectator In his Notes of 2 March, Charles Moore confesses that he is a sucker for...