Reflections on contemporary British history. Being a parent and an academic is not particularly different from being a member of any other profession or trade and being a parent. Small people wake you up at inconvenient times. Take on three admin roles! Always reply to emails as quickly as you can! Start a blog no, make it five blogs! .

Theatre Royal, Launceston Tasmania, Monday 27 July 1874 Joshua Artis elbows his way through the milling bodies to stake his place in the centre of the pit. Expertly he balances his beer without spilling a drop, winking at the ladies in their fancy frocks and ribbing the fellas he meets down the taverns. Infanticide at the Star Inn.

Let the colours fill your eyes. On the back of the wind. To the song of canaries nearby. Soft as velvet, intricate. They dive low among the grape vines. All the way down to the pastel sea. While the blazing sun sinks.

The post war council estate in time. Sunday, 16 August 2015. Sunday, August 16, 2015. Wednesday, 5 August 2015. Back to the Future 1965-2015-2016. BACK TO THE FUTURE 1965-2015-2016. Middlefield Lane estate, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. Film Festival at the Trinity Arts .

News and views from the history department at Kingston University, London. Centre for The Historical Record. New online resources at British Library.

Diary of an American woman living in Victorian France. Map of Paris in 1889. Sunday, October 13, 1889. Since writing the above I have learned that the garden of Versailles are not now 60 miles in dimensions. I cannot find out how large they actually are now, but they are immense at any rate. Includes a lovely photo gallery.

Scotland LGBT Historical Maps, 1885-1995. Scotland decriminalized homosexual acts between consenting male adults in private in 1980, 13 years after similar legislation in England and Wales.

Provides an early and important twentieth-century example. At the beginning of the novel Owen and his colleagues are sitting on upturned buckets, slurping tea from jam jars during their lunch break. One of the decorators, Easton, is reading the. Having been schooled in the bigotry of British imperialism, Hilton was swept up by the a.