The Victoria History of the County of Devon: v. 1 (Victoria County History)
Peerage News (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
_. Francis Arthur John [French], 7th Baron De Freyne, died at his home, 24 November 2009, aged 82. He was b 3 Sept 1927, son of the 6th Baron (1884-1935), by his wife the former Lina Victoria Arnott (d. 25 Oct 1974), 3rd dau. of Sir John Alexander Arnott, 2nd Bt., by his wife Caroline Sydney Williams DBE, 1st dau. of Sir Frederick Martin Williams, 2nd Bt, of Tregullow, co. Cornwall; succeeded to the...
Somerset Writers (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Caroline Carver’s Three Hares, John Stuart’s Word of mouth & Anne Born’s ‘Singing Granites’ Caroline Carver won the National Poetry Prize in 1998. She is a Hawthorndon Fellow and currently poet-in-residence at Trebah Gardens in Cornwall. She has given workshops with Penelope Shuttle and Victoria Fields. John Stuart is a translator and chair of the Somerset poets’...
Reading the Past (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
When I was a teenager, Gothic novels formed a good part of my pleasure reading. They were the perfect escape, and I devoured them by the boxful. In a typical storyline, an attractive but naive young woman encounters danger and romance when she takes a position at a crumbling old castle or haunted mansion in the English countryside. She fights her attraction to the titled master of the house, a guarded,...
nufc1892 blog on Absolute Radio (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The Duchess of Cornwall has continued her run of unfortunate mishaps at royal engagements as she struggled to switch on the Christmas lights at Britain's oldest shopping arcade. The Duchess, 62, was invited to illuminate central London's exclusive Burlington Arcade and meet some of the shopkeepers in the famous covered thoroughfare, which opened in 1819. But after a boisterous countdown from shoppers,...
MEI Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Very hot today so Barbara and I had a restful day, while our friends visited Stellenbosch. We had morning coffee in Simon’s Town, and then spent the rest of the day at Monkey Valley. I went for my usual, today uneventful, walk on the beach. Simon's Town Jon emailed from Botswana. He had just left Zambia and was disappointed that there was virtually no water to be seen flowing over the Victoria...
The Monarchist (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall visited Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt, the Headquarters of the Canadian Pacific Fleet, in Victoria, British Columbia 9 November 2009 to mark the upcoming centennial of the Canadian Navy (1910-2010). Readers will know this is very dear to me, the navy there being my former occupation and home port. If you listen closely, he actually called it the Royal...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, will wrap up their four-day visit to the West Coast at the Esquimalt Canadian Forces base west of Victoria on Monday morning.
Historical Tapestry (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
November 1 Devil's Cub by Georgette Heyer (rerelease) Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall by Winston Graham November 2 What Remains of Heaven: A Sebastian St Cyr Mystery by C S Harris November 3 No Less Than Victory : A Novel of World War II by Jeff Shaara November 5 Armistice by Nick Stafford November 10 New York: The Novel by Edward Rutherford Broken Jewel: A Novel by David L Robbins November 12 The...
Alter The Press! (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Grammatics will release a new single called 'Double Negative' on October 26th on 7” and is available digitally now. A free download of 'Inkjet Lakes (feat. Blue Roses)' from Grammatics' self-titled album can be found here . Live UK Dates 2nd October - Empress Ballroom, Blackpool, UK (w/ Bloc Party) 3rd October - Picture House, Edinburgh, UK (w/ Bloc Party) 4th October - Iron Works, Inverness...
CWNN NEWS (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
September 30 Glue Club @ The Cockpit Leeds October 2 Empress Ballroom Blackpool 3 Picture House Edinburgh 4 Iron Works Inverness 6 Music Hall Aberdeen 7 Alhambra Dunfermline 8 City Hall Hull 10 Academy Sheffield 11 Academy Leeds 12 Engine Shed Lincoln 14 Victoria Hall Stoke 15 Academy Birmingham 16 Centre Newport 18 Arena Llandudno 19 University Liverpool 20 Academy Bristol 22 Hall For Cornwall Truro...
Martin's Moths (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
More signs of the prevalence of butterflies and moths as symbols or decoration: further south on our holiday probe, another of my small cousins, Anna, came dashing back into the bar at the King's Head in Ruan Lanihorne ( a lovely hamlet in Cornwall) and said; "there's a butterfly in the ladies." This was one place I could not venture, in spite of the fact that I have stalked butterflies in...
Dont Let Them Hurt Our Children (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Rodney Stafford, father of eight-year-old Victoria “Tori” Stafford, who was abducted and killed in May, wants people to open their eyes to the potential dangers to children. REGINA — Rodney Stafford wants people to open their eyes to the potential dangers lurking out there. “I want people to know that no matter where you live, whether it be a big city, a small town, a little...
Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | 20/08/2009
( EMAILWIRE.COM , August 20, 2009 ) Buckinghamshire UK - Aaron Wallis Sales Recruitment, a UK based Recruitment Company that specializes in sales and marketing recruitment has recently opened three new offices. Their new offices are in London (London Victoria), Bristol (South West England) and Leeds (Yorkshire). Having enjoyed continuous growth over the past two years Aaron Wallis feel the time is...
The Torch (Free subscription) | 18/08/2009
H.M.C.S. Regina was torpedoed 65 years ago today on 8 August 1944. (My apologies for being a week late on this one, but better late than never) Her Majesty's Canadian Ship Regina , the Halifax -class frigate in which I served for three years, is named after Regina, the capital city of the Province of Saskatchewan. "The Queen City", as Regina is affectionately known, was named in 1882 after...
The Monarchist (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
H.M.C.S. Regina was torpedoed 65 years ago today on August 8, 1944. Her Majesty's Canadian Ship Regina , the Halifax -class frigate in which I served for three years, is named after Regina, the capital city of the Province of Saskatchewan. "The Queen City", as Regina is affectionately known, was named in 1882 after Queen Victoria, i.e. Victoria Regina , by her daughter Princess Louise, wife...
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