Theme: History
Bully boys and ‘turning the buoys’: it’s a pivotal date for the summer
The Royal St John’s Regatta is scheduled for Wednesday, August 7 – or, famously, maybe not. There are a lot of distinctive facts and singular traditions linked to the event:…
Missing: One Grandfather, near Ypres, 1918: Marie Stamp follows a RNR soldier’s footsteps
Travelling by train through the rolling farmland of Flanders’ fields, sweeping past small red-bricked towns and muddy furrows waiting for seed, the glint of sunlight on slim white slabs catches…
Is a seal a fish?
We’ve often heard that none less than the Pope, or a pope, or the Bishop, or a bishop, decreed that seals were fish – not meat – opening a food…
Old Christmas Day
It’s been called one of the greatest short stories ever written: James Joyce‘s The Dead, set on The Feast of the Epiphany, opening as Gabriel Conroy and his wife, Gretta,…
Small, modest markers of love and respect: field stones in Newfoundland’s cemeteries, by Robyn S Lacy
When you walk through a cemetery in Newfoundland, you reach out your hand to brush through the tall grass or pick a partridgeberry that has grown plump, snuggled between the…