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Category: 1930s

The Last Battle: Stanley G. Weinbaum’s Odyssey

04/04/201519/10/2016 Dr Caroline Potter1930s

Stanley Grauman Weinbaum was born on 4th April 1902, in Louisville Kentucky. In spite of his family’s strong show business connections – he was a relative of both Sid Grauman, the creator of Grauman’s Chinese[…]

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Le Grand Jeu: René Daumal’s Peradams

16/03/201519/10/2016 Dr Caroline Potter1920s

Like his literary hero the poet Arthur Rimbaud, René Daumal was a native of the Champagne-Ardenne region of north-eastern France. His brilliance and tragically early demise, were also shared by his predecessor. In the seventy[…]

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Ace Of Clubs: The Matchless Pamela Barton

04/03/201519/10/2016 Dr Caroline Potter1930s

Born in Barnes on 4th March 1917, Pamela Barton, Pam for short, showed an astonishing golfing prowess from early childhood. At the age of 17, Barton won the French International Ladies Golf Championship and two years later,[…]

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This site takes its name from Virginia Woolf's 1939 memoir. As an historian of the 20th Century, and of the Bloomsbury Group, I hope it not only says what happened, but also, ‘what the person was like to whom it happened.’

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