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"Clothing the dry bones of history with flesh and blood..."
Florence White and the English Folk Cookery Association
Nov 27 • 
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From Jane Austen to Downton Abbey - too many daughters.
How women's disinheritance drives plot lines
Nov 20 • 
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Desert Island Discs - the books.
What books Desert Island Disc castaways choose - and what that might say about them.
Nov 13 • 
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Bugles from sad shires..
Thoughts on Adelstrop.
Nov 6 • 
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October 2025

My Psychic Mama
and poetic thoughts on the season...
Oct 30 • 
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The DNA of your reading life.
What do your books mean to you?
Oct 23 • 
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Women in the Driving Seat
Going motoring with Edith and Virgina (and others)
Oct 16 • 
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The Mindful Mollusc
"I tasted the salty Pleiades..."
Oct 9 • 
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September 2025

A blow to the culture of deference...
"A window has been opened and blown fresh air through England" **
Sep 25 • 
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The Champions of Lady Chatterley
and her detractors...(Part One)
Sep 18 • 
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Liaisons in Illyria
Literary visits to Albania
Sep 11 • 
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Love, War and Will Making
A true story
Sep 4 • 
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