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As you are no doubt aware, today is NATIONAL HAT DAY, a 24hr stretch during which we can all come together to celebrate headwear with gay abandon and e…
Shaun Usher
1 hr ago
Martha Gellhorn spent much of her adult life travelling the world as a celebrated war correspondent and is best known for her reporting during the Span…
Shaun Usher
23 hr ago
Today marks 80 years since the death of James Joyce, the influential Irish novelist whose books, such as the once-scandalous Ulysses and forever impene…
Shaun Usher
Jan 13
Basically: letters about birds
Shaun Usher
Jan 12
Spook, Spuck, Spack, Speek, Spouk, Spaak, Spilk, Spiak, Spunk, Spank, Spink...
Shaun Usher
Jan 11
Exactly five years ago, two days after the release of David Bowie’s latest album, Blackstar, millions of hearts broke with the news of Bowie’s death fo…
Shaun Usher
Jan 10
How to resign
Shaun Usher
Jan 8
On 19 March 2018, almost five years after being diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer, thirty-eight-year-old Julie Yip-Williams died, leaving behind a h…
Shaun Usher
Jan 7
Winter, enveloped 
Shaun Usher
Jan 6
A few reminders on this dreary Tuesday that very often, less is more.
Shaun Usher
Jan 5
Today is the anniversary of the death of French-Algerian author Albert Camus. His achievements were numerous, but over the past year, for obvious reaso…
Shaun Usher
Jan 4
Did you know that Noël Coward and Virginia Woolf were essentially pen pals? Are you aware that Graeme Souness once received a letter from Frank Sinatra…
Shaun Usher
Jan 3
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