The trees around Nunhead

 The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway opened. "The official opening took place on 16th July 1927, with Hercules hauling that inaugu...

Twenty years ago today, I was in my office at the British Museum, which looked out over Russell Square. I have a vague memory of a large ba...

 

 Roughly fifty years ago, give or take, I solved my first ever Guardian cryptic crossword clue.  It was an Araucaria, of course.  We were in...

 He is in disguise as Don Justino de Neve. 1665. By Bartolome Esteban Murillo.

 Following on from an earlier post , another event we went to was a talk by Randall Munroe, called What If? A decade of Imagining the Impos...

 In addition to the anniversaries mentioned earlier , it is perhaps worth mentioning that it is 80 years since the first of the Reverend Awd...