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Category Archives: History
Durham Cathedral & Castle – a creative viewpoint
I have visited Durham just once – it is a long journey from the south of England – and it is time I went back. My friend Anna has inspired me by showing me a short piece she wrote for … Continue reading
Posted in Art, History, Writing
Tagged creativity, Durham Castle, Durham cathedral, Durham University, history, Sir Walter Scott, travel, writing
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Wordsworth, Whistler and a Waterloo Sunset – the beauty of London Bridges
The Thames is a river that takes me on imaginative journeys, some of them reflecting my real life and others a dream world that I have inhabited regularly since I left London in the late 1980s. From the Oxfordshire … Continue reading
Where the costumes are a cast member – Keats & Fanny Brawne as fiction in ‘Bright Star’
In December I wrote a blog post entitled Picturing John Keats - Image or Imagination? describing how I felt about the representations of Keats in art. I mentioned the 2009 film Bright Star only briefly as but another opportunity for … Continue reading
Posted in History, Keats, Poetry
Tagged Bright Star, costume, film, John Keats, Keats, Poetry, Regency
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Keats at Guy’s Hospital part 2 – An education in horror
Looking at the National Health Service today, it is clear that despite economic constraints it offers a standard of care that renders incomprehensible to us the dreadful conditions under which people of all classes were treated in the early 19th … Continue reading
Posted in History, Keats, Poetry
Tagged body snatching, Doctors, Guy's Hospital, John Keats, Keats, London, medicine, Poetry
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The Clerkenwell Outrage of 1867 – Irish Republicanism in London
In 1868 Queen Victoria wrote a disturbing note to the then Home Secretary. She was deeply unhappy ” to see the failure of the evidence against all but one of the Clerkenwell criminals… it seems dreadful for these people to … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged Clerkenwell, Fenian, history, Independence, IRB, Ireland, London, Republicanism, Victorian
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No Wriggling gets a guest slot: Hellish Nell: Helen Duncan – spiritualist, martyr or fraud?
A quick post just to let you know that No Wriggling has been given a guest slot over at Kith and Kin Research today. My subject is wartime spiritualist Helen Duncan and her trial under the Witchcraft Act in 1944. … Continue reading
Posted in History, Writing
Tagged Helen Duncan, Hellish Nell, Kith and Kin UK, medium, spiritualism, Witchcraft Act, WW1, WW2
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‘This enormous Babel of a place’ – On learning of London before the Victorians
I have recently been looking into the history of London between 1810 and 1830 to add some context to my blog posts on the poet John Keats. It is a period in the history of the metropolis that I have … Continue reading
Keats at Guys Hospital Pt 1 – Life in a ‘jumbled heap’ of ‘murky buildings’
Whilst researching for a longer post about John Keats and his medical studies, I had the opportunity to read some accounts of the student accommodation he shared during the time he spent at Guy’s Hospital, in London. They are fascinating, … Continue reading
Posted in History, Keats, Poetry
Tagged Guy's Hospita, history, John Keats, Keats, King's Bench Prison, London, Marshalsea, Photos, research, Southwark
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On the occasion of my 100th blog post – I give you a time machine…
I am a centenarian! I cannot believe that this is the 100th time I have posted on no more wriggling out of writing. It was in July 2010 that the first tentative jottings went out into the blogosphere and at … Continue reading
‘Keep it in the family’ – can a family history ever reveal the truth of tragedy ?
I have written before on the subject of my Great Uncle Alf Hardiman (see ‘An Unsound Mind’) and had an article published in Family Tree magazine (A Shadowy Past) relating his story and linking it to a family history of … Continue reading
Posted in Family History, History, Mental health, Writing
Tagged depression, family, history, London, relationships, writing
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