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Dylan Thomas’ Début on Air

Originally posted on A R T LR K:

Onthe9thof November 1953, Welshpoet Dylan Thomas diedin New York.Famous for such poems as ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ or ‘And death shall have no dominion’, Dylan is also remembered for his exceptionally fruitful collaboration with the BBC. Between 1943 and 1953, Dylan made approximately 145 appearances on air, reading poetry and prose.The ‘Reminiscences of Childhood’, his first BBC broadcast, was aired on the 15thof February 1943.

It is said that...

Ville d’Avray, the last home of Grace Dalrymple Elliott

Originally posted on All Things Georgian:

Today we are going to take a look at the French village of Ville d’Avray, where Grace Dalrymple Elliott ended her days. In the eighteenth-century Grace had been known as a notorious courtesan and mistress of the Earl of Cholmondeley, the Prince of Wales (when he was young and handsome) and Louis Philippe Joseph, Duc d’Orléans. The Prince was the reputed father of her daughter, Georgiana, although Cholmondeley was the man who brought her up as if she...

Interiors: Duke Humfrey’s Library, part of the Bodelian Library, Oxford, UK.

Originally posted on www.seanmunger.com:

This magnificent reading room is the oldest part of what is now known as the Bodelian Library, itself one of the oldest libraries in Europe. It’s the intellectual centerpiece of Oxford University. Duke Humfrey’s Library is named for the Humfrey, the Duke of Gloucester, the youngest son of King Henry IV of England. Humfrey amassed a large collection of books and manuscripts, most of them translations of Greek and Roman texts. When he died in 1447 he d...

Elizabeth Wydeville gives birth to Edward V in sanctuary

Originally posted on tudors & other histories:

On All Souls’ Day, November 2nd, 1470, Elizabeth Wydeville gave birth to Prince Edward while she was still at sanctuary in the Abbot’s House at Westminster Abbey. She was expected to give birth amidst splendor in the Tower of London, but when the odds turned against her husband, she was forced to flee the comforts of her chambers with her mother and daughter to Westminster Abbey. In spite of Richard Neville [Earl of Warwick] animosity with the...

Regency Personalities Series-Anne Seymour Damer

Originally posted on The Things That Catch My Eye:

Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of themany period notables.

Anne Seymour Damer
8 November 1749 – 28 May 1828

Anne Seymour Damer

Anne Seymour Damer (Conway) was born in Sevenoaks into an aristocratic Whig family; she was the only daughter of Field-Marshal Henry Seymour Conway and his wife Caroline Bruce, born Campbell, Lady Ailesbury, and was brought up at...

Annie Horniman

Originally posted on :

Annie Horniman was born in 1860 in Forest Hill, London, the daughter of tea merchant and founder of theHorniman Museum, Frederick John Horniman. During her childhood, visits to theatre were forbidden, butwhen a German governess took her to see The Merchant of Venice, she was instantly hooked. She would goon to become one of the most influential (although often forgotten) women in twentieth century Britishtheatre.

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The Joy of November (Snippets 38)

Originally posted on Windows into History:

Winter Landscape with Iceskaters, by Hendrick Avercamp (c. 1608)

William Howitt (1792-1879) was a prolific writer, principally of non-fiction, who wrote on a variety of topics over the course of his life: religion, literature, spiritualism, travel, history. He was perhaps best known for his books on rural life. One of the most charming is A Country Book: for the field, the forest, and the fireside, published in 1859. It contains one chapter per mo...

The Congo River Monster (Creepy History 16)

Originally posted on Windows into History:

In 1909, Carl Hagenbeck wrote Beasts and Men. The following quote concerns long-standing reports in the Congo river region of some kind of a dinosaur-like monster.

Some years ago I received reports from two quite distinct sources of the existence of an immense and wholly unknown animal, said to inhabit the interior of Rhodesia. Almost identical stories reached me, firstly, through one of my own travellers, and, secondly, through an English gentleman...

Last Letters Home: Revealing the Pension File Correspondence of Union Irish Soldiers & Their Families

Originally posted on Irish in the American Civil War:

Over recent years I have been compiling a database of those widows’ and dependents pension files which contain primary correspondence from Irish and Irish-American soldiers and their families. As regular readers are aware, these letters feature frequently on the site, but I have only been in a position to share a handful of the 100s I have come across. Having recently been invited to deliver a lecture to the American Civil War Round Table...

Move Over Barnes & Noble, Hello Amazon Brick-and-Mortar—Bringing Back the Bookstore Only Better

Originally posted on Kristen Lamb's Blog:

Okay, I have to close my bookstore. DANG IT!

Man, I SO love being right. Not to brag, but those who’ve followed me any amount of time know my tract record for predictions is pretty darn impressive. Back as early as 2006 I knew social media was going to be a game changer for novelists. Until social media, fiction authors had zero ability to build a platform of fans before the book was ever finished/published, unlike non-fiction authors (which probab...