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LXXI The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all they ...

This is an exemplary bit of history, the author using his family’s extensive archive as the starting point for a no-holds-barred investigati...

This remarkable, detailed and insightful biography is a great joy, and in the audiobook version you get the author's impressions of vari...

You can now watch the video of my interview with Fatima Manji about her book Hidden Heritage , conducted yesterday as part of Macfest. It...

Bit late on this as I've been away, but the new issue of Doctor Who Magazine boasts an extraordinary cover by Oliver Arkinstall-Jones, ...

I'm a guest on the Journeys into Genealogy podcast with host Emma Cox, talking about my efforts to research the history of my own surnam...

"'There's worse things than being dead,' I had said." (p. 283) Prompted by a recent discussion on the radio of Octavia...

Yesterday, we buried my father.  It has been a fraught week, trying to anticipate changes to lockdown rules relating to funerals - whether w...

The Lord of Chaos and I had a brilliant short break in Liverpool, visiting relatives and seeing the sights. It helped that the weather was ...

It has been an eventful week, with the Dr giving birth to a beautiful baby girl who, online, we'll call Lady Vader. Given our history...

Episode 602: The Five Doctors First broadcast: 10.30 pm on Wednesday 23 November 1983 ( US ); 7.20 pm on Friday 25 November 1983 (UK) <...

My clever uncle Bob has updated his website with details of his latest musical choons . We've swapped notes on our current activities, a...

Hooray for my cousin G, who asked a favour of a waiter on my behalf. I now have the opening line of something mammoth I am writing. Well, no...

The sister is back from Oz for six months and we had a summons back to the ancestral home of the Guerrier clan yesterday. It should only tak...

Just back from a weekend in Sheffield with family to find plenty of actual and potential offers of that there scribbling in by inbox. Which ...

Devon drizzled with occasional sunshine. Salcombe conspired to have 45 degree slops whichever route you took, but is a pretty, posh-shopped...

We have been visited. First on Monday, J. arrived from Bath (and more usually the USA). She had not seen our flat before, nor our William Mo...

My old man’s a doctor, he wears a doctor’s hat. Well, he’s retired now. And it wasn’t really a hat so much as a head mirror. Which is, as ev...

Spoke to the sister this morning, swapping gossip of one sort and another. She lives on the other side of the planet and has caught the nati...

Met the Dr in the spangly Young Vic bar Wednesday night, where we shared some giraffes of wine. She also bought me a leatherless present, L...