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Part of an occasional series . Lindner Hotel & Sporting Club Wiesensee .

Ramson, vegetable stock, crème fraiche - et voilà!

In the course of writing the conclusion for my current project on Christian intellectuals in Britain in the 1930s and 1940s, I've run ac...

So this is what men think femininity means: Thanks for nothing. It took us centuries to throw off the shackles that you are reimposing...

European manners at a premium amongst the professional class in India . How dare they? How dare we? Oh, the world is so bloody difficult the...

Sans paroles: Centre européen de transit des migrants (2016) Palais Bulles (Antti Lovag, 1989 [sic])

I ran across this review of the 1943 Ministry of Information film Welcome to Britain , a guide to American troops on how to make a good impr...

This seems to fit the current Zeitgeist , though it's from 70 years ago. Plus ça change, as we rootless cosmopolitans say. The Chu...

A lucky escape there, London, I'd say.  The News Chronicle , 17 February 1941, 4

“‘Mr Hobbes, the Atheist,’ the perpetrator of The Leviathan , like most people who insist on thinking straight, is usually classed as sayi...

When I was young, my mother told me all about how the dance halls in her village instituted "black nights" and "white nights...

Spotted in the New Statesman and Nation from many, many summers ago: "The arrival of Americans makes us feel that something is real...

In February 1942, the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, Rev. William Inge -- nicknamed "the gloomy Dean"  -- stressed both the de...

From the dark days of June 1940, a rather surprising -- and as far as I know, unique -- use of imagery: The entire task of upholding civi...

Amidst a much longer rumination on ageing by Frank W. Boreham , a popular early twentieth-century English Baptist preacher, one finds...a ga...

This feels familiar: Never before, I suppose, has so much music rolled into our lives as now. I have sometimes thought it would be an ide...