While on the subject of lists (see my previous blog post), here’s a whole selection of facts about sleep, gleaned from a variety of internet lists, supported by further digging. I can’t remember what this research was for (I’m not sure I ever knew – it was for something Hamish was working on), but it’s been sitting in … Continue reading To sleep, perchance to dream…
Category: History
Fake news: there’s (probably) a bylaw for that
While researching a potential story for a client in one of my other roles (as PR professional), I found, scattered across the internet, a whole subgenre of lists of archaic bylaws that are still current. In typical internet fashion, many of the lists simply replicate other lists, and a lot include defunct bylaws or apocryphal … Continue reading Fake news: there’s (probably) a bylaw for that
Master Nicholas and ‘The Owl and the Nightingale’
Extract from Possum People: Brief lives of some of the prominent people who have had connections with Portesham by Jack Elwin, 2010. IN THE 12TH OR 13TH CENTURY Portesham was mentioned in a poem called The Owl and the Nightingale, probably written by a certain ‘Master Nicholas’. It survives in two copies, one in the … Continue reading Master Nicholas and ‘The Owl and the Nightingale’
Other writings by Jack Elwin
Jack Elwin, author of A Magic Smell for A Marrow, wrote a trilogy of historical novels set during the English Civil War, and a number of short biographies of historical Dorset figures, all featuring in a booklet entitled Possum People: Brief lives of some of the prominent people who have had connections with Portesham, produced … Continue reading Other writings by Jack Elwin
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