Tuesday, 14 February 2023

Book Review: Forgotten Heroes - Rediscovered for the Digital Age

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Post by Irene McCready Forgotten Heroes -  Rediscovered for the Digital Age:  An Anthology of  Tweets for the War Poets Association (edited ...
Tuesday, 22 November 2022

Return to Ypres -12 years on

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In 2010 the SSF ran a very successful coach trip to Ypres and the Western Front, one of the most ambitious things we've undertaken. I...
Monday, 18 July 2022

"Benediction" - a review by Cynthia Greenwood

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I enjoy historical plays and novels and have, of course, seen some of them as films. I have therefore heard quite a lot of the sort of thing...
Sunday, 29 May 2022

Port Lympne - Philip Sassoon’s Legacy

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Post by Irene McCready      Afternoon tea at Port Lympne, Philip Sassoon’s constituency home, seemed to be the perfect birthday treat for on...
Monday, 23 May 2022

Larkin and his friends

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      This post may be taken as yet another reminder that all members of literary societies affiliated to the Alliance of Literary Societies...
Thursday, 24 March 2022

The courage of Marc Bloch

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       As a student of medieval French during the 1970s, I was obliged to read one of the standard works on French medieval history,  La Soc...
Saturday, 27 November 2021

The "Pen-Prostituter" looks forward to Christmas 1921

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       I am afraid the title of this post is somewhat misleading, in two senses. Siegfried Sassoon, in his diary for 21 November 1921, expre...