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Monthly Archives: July 2015
A Man and a Brother?
Hindsight is inevitably a snare for the serious historian – how much more so for the dabbling amateur? How could so many normal people (and not just Germans) support the Nazi party? How could so many people (and not just … Continue reading
Posted in History, London
Tagged abolition, Clapham sect, George Hibbert, Jamaica, slavery, William Wilberforce
5 Comments
The Garden Museum
What do the following museums have in common: Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, The Queen’s House in Greenwich, and the Garden Museum in Lambeth? The answer is a good news/bad news one: all three are about to undergo refurbishment, extension or … Continue reading
Posted in Botany, Gardens, History, London, Museums and Galleries
Tagged Elias Ashmole, Garden Museum, John Tradescant, St Mary's Lambeth, William Bligh
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Graves of the Great and Good
I had been meaning for ages to visit the Ascension Burial Ground in north Cambridge, and a tweet from Zoe Cormack about the grave of J.G. Frazer and his wife finally got me off the sofa and out of the … Continue reading
The Professor of Basket-Making
In the Museum of Cambridge (formerly the Folk Museum) not far from Murray Edwards College (formerly New Hall) but somewhat north of John Lewis (formerly Robert Sayle) there is a bizarre object donated in 1925 by Thomas Okey (1852–1935), first … Continue reading
Retirement: Four Months In
First thought: who would have thought it? I should have marked the first three months, or quarter-year, in June, but it passed by almost unnoticed. I see from my diary that on 20 June I was recovering from (and writing … Continue reading
Posted in Cambridge, Gardens, London, Museums and Galleries
Tagged gardening, reading, retirement
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Plant of the Month: July
It doesn’t take a very fertile brain to extend the ‘Object of the Month’ concept to other areas: so welcome to ‘Plant of the Month’. This should perhaps be the titan arum (#tinytitan), which has flowered this year in Edinburgh … Continue reading
Posted in Botany, Cambridge, Gardens
Tagged CUBG, lavender, plant of the month, titan arum
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Anna Maria Vassa
Last night, I went on one of the wonderful Allan Brigham’s Cambridge ‘Town not Gown’ walks, intended by Allan (a Cambridge Blue Badge Guide) to introduce the inhabitants of Cambridge to some of the less familiar aspects of their city. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged abolition, Chesterton, Gustavus Vassa, Olaudah Equiano, slavery, Town Not Gown
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