Tag Archives: Downy V. Green

Guest post: Clare Hopkins, ‘One Man and his College’

Posted on December 9, 2016 by Patrick Miles

Anyone who has ever watched an episode of Morse or Lewis will know that Oxford Colleges are well supplied with portraits. Founders, archbishops, prime ministers, and Nobel Prize winners gaze grandly down from the panelled walls of Dining Halls. Smaller … Continue reading →

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‘A paradox, a paradox…’

Posted on October 8, 2016 by Patrick Miles

As part of my preparation for writing ‘Who George Calderon Was’, I have just re-read all the personal memoirs that Kittie asked George’s friends to write for Percy Lubbock’s book about George (the memoirs themselves have never been published). Undoubtedly … Continue reading →

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The Nastiness Factor

Posted on September 20, 2016 by Patrick Miles

I have ‘worked with’ the Edwardians, so to speak, for a while now. I feel that if I were dropped into London society around 1905 I would know my bearings and could hold my own. There is much that, having … Continue reading →

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14 November 1914

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Patrick Miles

Kittie must have brought newspapers and new books into hospital for George, because today at ‘Far End’, Kingham, Chipping Norton, the novelist Anne Douglas Sedgwick was writing him a long letter thanking him for one from him that congratulated her … Continue reading →