Month: July 2023

You might have thought that in the decade of free love, peace and eternal cosmic happiness, there would have been a place for a greater understanding and tolerance of our…

And so, I began to understand how the half century in particular, before my birth, was full of relevance potentially to my own life, my concerns, my modus operandi as a…

Whilst the end of the 19th century saw the advent of the concept of homosexuality as a pathological medical or psychological condition this also legitimised 'treatments' to try to change…

It may seem almost remarkable, given the extent of the amount of homosexuality and its related cultural milieu, that we can now document as having existed in the first part…

Contents: Introduction On pandemics, Big Society or Big brother? Preface A personal story Part 1 The backstory contains 9 chapters, of which all are now online 1.1 Early days, early doors…

Ending just over a decade before I was born, the Second World War (WW2) still maintained something of a hold our family, as I was growing up at 5, Padnell Avenue,…

It would also be remiss of me, after discussing somewhat flawed playrights and poets, in part 1, not to mention the famous hispanic poet and playright Federico Garcia Lorca (1898 -1936). He is not…

If we look more closely at the first few decades during the last century, specifically in the UK and especially the period around and just after the First Great War,…

Many recent historians, biographers, have made much of the fact that, particularly now, (but even half a century ago if one really wished to do the groundwork & follow the paper trail)…

Remember! Bluebells underfoot. Crisp leaves, shades- russet gold, brown. Breathlessly sliding, fast, faster, downhill on top of pure white fresh fallen snow, Building stones across valley stream;watching damned muddy water…