An auction house with an international reputation is struggling to catalogue a medieval book which is written in an impenetrable script. The more they research it, the more they are horrified by what they find.
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Following the Mr Blackwood readings, I have a new ten-part series on Radio Odstock at 9pm on Mondays. If I say they’re readings of ‘classic’ stories, that’s a polite was of saying that they’re all out of copyright! These are the programmes for the next ten weeks. Radio Odstock can be found on radioodstock.org.uk Night Time story: Series 2 15 Dec ‘25 Conan Doyle: The […]
I bonded with the Victorians a long time ago. Until I was six I lived in a house where there was no electricity, so I’ve experienced at first hand the ways in which family life arranges itself round a single source of light and heat. I went to a Victorian school which had gas lamps – one of the classrooms didn’t have any lights at […]
I have written before in this blog about the lion attack on the Salisbury mail coach in 1816. For those of you who missed it, this is the story. In The Devil’s Coachman, the first of the inventor’s two tales, there is an account of how a lioness attacked the Salisbury mail coach at what was then called the Winterslow Hut (until recently The Pheasant). […]
