‘It just has so often a yearning within – but then you go back with broken wings and life goes on, as if you’d never been there.’ – Karoline in Kasimir und Karoline by Ödön von Horváth[…]
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Category: First World War
Lucky Jim: Slough’s Canine Collector
Guarding his territory and gazing out over the platforms where he roamed so freely more than a century ago, Station Jim stands to attention in his glass case on Platform 5 of Slough railway station.[…]
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Across The Sky In Stars: The Wisdom Of T. E. Lawrence
Thomas Edward Lawrence was born in Tremadog, North Wales on 16th August 1888. The second of five sons, Lawrence’s father was Sir Thomas Chapman, Baronet of Kilkea Castle, near County Kildare in Ireland and his[…]
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