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Category Archive: History

Tsagarakis has Designs on the Parthenon Marbles

Spyridon Tsagarakis is perhaps best known as a fashion designer; his clothes can be found in the wardrobes […]

February 25, 2015 Culture, Greece, History

In a Corner of a Foreign Field: the sad tale of Varig Flight 820

Some time ago, in the dim and distant past that was the 1980s, I was in a Dublin […]

October 20, 2014 France, History, Trinity College

Obituary: Ray Wolf 1914-2014

Ray Wolf, the last of the grandchildren of Edward Spender, founder of the Western Morning News, has died […]

July 8, 2014 Culture, History, Spender

The Tragedy of Tregonhawke Bay

When I was a youngster, I was taken by my father to see a memorial at Tregonhawke on […]

June 9, 2014 History, Spender

The Winter Games through a Victorian lens

Thousands of journalists are descending on the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics, […]

February 3, 2014 Books, Culture, History, Olympics, Sport

The Mad Leap of the Ski-Jumpers

The ski-jump competition is one of the most popular aspects of any Winter Olympics and has been since […]

January 27, 2014 History, Olympics, Sport

The Thin White Line of Cross-Country Skiing

Cross-country skiing is an integral part of the Winter Olympics and has been since the first event in […]

January 22, 2014 History, Olympics, Sport

Sowing the seeds for the Winter Olympics

When the Winter Olympics get underway in Sochi on February 7, there will be in the region of […]

January 15, 2014 History, Olympics, Sport

Book Review: 1915 The Death of Innocence

Plenty has been written and said over the last fortnight about the horrors and sacrifices that the men […]

November 26, 2013 Book reviews, Books, France, History

A Tragical Incident mit ze glorious Josef Stalin

It is a part of the journalist’s job that they occasionally get to meet and mix with world […]

November 14, 2013 Georgia, History

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