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As the Grand Union Canal goes under the M4, some graffiti which expresses dismay at Donald Trump but then also has "God bless the hippies" as well.
During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) a number of New Zealanders, including nurses, made their way to "fight for Spain and humanity." However due to an allied non-intervention pact getting to Spain was not always easy, as three New Zealand nurses soon found out.
On 18 May 1937 - the day René Shadbolt, Isobel Dodds and Millicent Sharples were due to leave for Spain - they were summoned to the Central Police Station in Auckland and interrogated for three hours about their reasons for going. "The police took a ‘slightly different tactic’ with each woman" notes nzhistory.net.nz: "Shadbolt was accused of being a member of the Communist Party and Dodds of having an illegitimate child. Sharples, the oldest member of the group, was seen as simply naïve." Nonetheless, the three made it to Spain in July 1937, joining other nurses from around the world.
The return of the New Zealand nurses also contained some drama. On 21 January 1938 the NZ Spanish Medical Aid Committee wrote to Prime Minister Savage, asking whether the government would honour their service abroad by organising an official reception in Wellington. Their request was denied - Savage writing that "the Government will be unable to arrange for a Government reception on the occasion."
Archives Reference: IA1 Box 3017/ 158/282
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Happy Valentine's everyone :-)
I got this card today from my boy, he's only in year R (will be 5 at the end of this month) but he is coming on SO quickly at the moment. I love the card, and the picture of me (he checked with me if I owned a red top before he coloured it in!)
Hereios - Signs of Love
JFDI - Valentine's Day (challenge 74)
This autograph album belonged to Ollie Hubbard. I uploaded 50 of the 100 autographs that I liked the best. I am not sure if Ollie was a boy or a girl. (Ollie short for Oliver or Ollie short for Olivia, Olive, Olwen). The dates range from 1879 to 1889. Most of the names are from Trenton or Princeton, New Jersey. This may be Princeton University. There are references to the following names:
Model School
State Normal School
Trenton College
Princeton College
C. C. C. C.
A complete list of all the names is in the "set" description here.
This photo has writing on the back with the date 22 Sep 1941.
Also a shop or bank in the background with some interesting wording anyone translate?
Source: Scan of the original Edwardian booklet.
Ref: SWI.921.
Date: 1908.
Repository: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library.
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Creator: Mathison, Robert, Jr.
Date Issued: [1887]
Source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. R. Mathison printing collection
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Do they mean me?
I've heard that the old ones are the best! A selection of words of wisdom - or otherwise - from the protesters in Parliament Square. I was curious about the Freemason thing and I asked the man about it. He completely blanked me.
From the archives; topicality was never my strong point.
I posted this on a whim. I've just googled Mark Quinsey as I couldn't remember if I'd found anything on him when I took the photo. I was surprised to find this recent report. If it is the same Mark Quinsey I still don't understand where the freemasons come into it. www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/mother-sapper-ma...
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No date on this edition but it was presented to Lily Bache by the Moggill Sunday School in 1924.
Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher. The novel follows the lives of four sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March—detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood, and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters.
Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson were family friends. Alcott wrote under various pseudonyms and only started using her own name when she was ready to commit to writing. Her novel Little Women gave Louisa May Alcott financial independence and a lifetime writing career. She died in 1888.
104 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea SW10. Along with GK Chesterton, he was one of the great Roman Catholic philosophers of his day.
Taken from www.catholicauthors.com/belloc.html
JOSEPH HILAIRE PIERRE BELLOC, ONE OF THE TRUE LORDS of the English language, was not an Englishman by birth. His father was French, his mother was Irish; and when he married, his bride was an American. But he looked more like the traditional figure of John Bull than any Englishman could. He wore a stand-up collar several sizes too large for him. His rotund head was crowned with a black hat-sometimes tall, sometimes of the pancake variety. He was big and stocky and red of face, and a typically British great-coat draped his beefy form except in the warmest weather.
Hilaire Belloc-he dropped the other appendages at an early age-was born at La Celle, near Paris, on July 20, 1870. His father, Louis Swanton Belloc, was well known as a barrister throughout France. Bessie Rayner Belloc, his mother, was of Irish extraction. Somewhere in his immediate background was an infusion of Pennsylvania Dutch blood. His mother, who lived into her nineties and died in 1914, was a remarkably intellectual woman, noted as one of the signers of the first petition ever presented for women's suffrage.
Her son studied at the Oratory School at Edgebaston, England, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1893. In his third year he was Blackenbury History Scholar and an honor student in the history schools.
Between Oratory School and his matriculation at Oxford, Belloc served in the French Army, where as a driver in the Eighth Regiment of Artillery, he was stationed at Toul. It was from this spot that, years later, he was to set forth on the pilgrimage afoot to St. Peter's that furnished material for the book that many critics consider his best,- The Path to Rome.
In 1903 Belloc became a British subject and in 1906 was returned to Parliament by the South Salford constituency. He was a member of the Liberal party in the brilliant House of Commons created by the Tory debacle of the preceding year. He made his maiden speech in the House early in 1906 and it won him an immediate reputation as a brilliant orator. He had already attracted considerable attention during his campaign. In the year of his return to Parliament he was also the nominee of the British Bishops to the Catholic Education Council.
Belloc's literary career began immediately after Balliol. He rapidly achieved success as a newspaper and magazine writer and as a light versifier. His first book, published in the year of his graduation, was Verses and Sonnets, and this was followed within a year by The Bad Child's Book of Beasts, in which his reputation as a master of whimsy was fully established. One of the most famous in this category starts out thus:
The nicest child I ever knew
Was Charles Augustus Fortesque;
He never lost his cap or tore
His stockings or his pinafore;
In eating bread he made no crumbs.
He was extremely fond of sums.
Another, more dire, ballad about an untruthful maiden named Mathilde was a famous forerunner to the Ogden Nash style of rhyming:
It happened that a few weeks later
Her aunt was off to the theatre
To see that entertaining play
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray.
Belloc sat in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1910, but refused to serve a second term because, in his own words, he was "weary of the party system," and thought he could attack politics better from without Parliament than from within. From that time on he devoted his entire efforts to writing and lecturing.
Belloc's wife, the former Elodie Agnes Hogan of Napa, California, whom he married in 1896, died in 1914. He never remarried. His eldest son, Louis, was killed while serving as a flier in World War I, and his youngest, Peter, a captain of the Royal Marines, died during World War-II. Belloc made his home with his elder daughter, Mrs. Eleanor Jebb, wife of a member of Parliament, in Horsham, Sussex. Besides Eleanor, he had another daughter, Elizabeth, a poet, as-well as another son, Hilary, who lives in Canada. Belloc's sister, Mrs. Marie Belloc Lowndes, also a noted British writer, died in 1947.
By Pope Pius XI, Belloc was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory the Great in 1934 for his services to Catholicism as a writer. In the same year, his alma- mater, Oxford, conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts. He shared with the then British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, the distinction of being the only persons to have their portraits hung in the National Portrait Gallery while they were alive.
Mr. Belloc visited the United States on many occasions. In 1937 he served as a visiting Professor of History at the Graduate School of Fordham University in New York. From the matter of these lectures came his book, The Crisis of Civilization.
A prolific writer, he was the author of 153 books of essays, fiction, history, biography, poetry and light verse as well as a vast amount of periodical literature. He was largely responsible for G. K. Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism, and the two of them became ranked as not only among England's greatest writers but as the most brilliant lay expounders of Catholic doctrine. The two were also close friends and frequent collaborators, especially on the magazine which came to be known as G. K's. Weekly, and in which they came to wage many a valiant crusade together. As a critic noted: "To Hilaire Belloc this generation owes big glimpses of the Homeric spirit. His mission is to flay alive the humbugs and hypocrites and the pedants and to chant robust folk-songs to the naked stars of the English world to a rousing obligato of clinking flagons."
Because of his antagonism to many British sacred cows and his free and caustic criticism of them, he was not a wholly popular man in England. Nor did his espousal of the Franco cause against the Communists during the Spanish civil war add to his popularity there. But Belloc had never been a man to purchase popularity at the price of integrity.
Just four days before his eighty-third birthday, while dozing before the fireplace in his daughter's home, he fell into the flames and was so badly burned that he died in hospital at Guildford, Surrey, soon afterward on July 16, 1953.
Despite his own prediction to the contrary, his place in English letters is forever secure, primarily as a poet and as the author of The Path to Rome.
This autograph album belonged to Ollie Hubbard. I uploaded 50 of the 100 autographs that I liked the best. I am not sure if Ollie was a boy or a girl. (Ollie short for Oliver or Ollie short for Olivia, Olive, Olwen). The dates range from 1879 to 1889. Most of the names are from Trenton or Princeton, New Jersey. This may be Princeton University. There are references to the following names:
Model School
State Normal School
Trenton College
Princeton College
C. C. C. C.
A complete list of all the names is in the "set" description here.
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On the morning of 29 January 1840, Captain William Hobson arrived in Kororāreka, Bay of Islands, to negotiate with Māori rangatira (chiefs) the ceding of sovereignty to the British Crown.
The Herald anchored off Kororāreka and British Resident, James Busby, came on board soon after. Hobson handed him a letter from the British Government announcing that his position was terminated. Busby nevertheless assisted Hobson with his immediate tasks, composing invitations first to the Europeans of Kororāreka to gather the following day to hear Hobson read his commissions and proclamations, and second to the confederated chiefs to meet Hobson at Busby’s residence the following Wednesday (5 February)
This is a copy of the letter Hobson sent to George Gipps on his arrival, and informs him that he has relieved Busby of his duties as Resident. It comes from a bound register of correspondence to Gipps, held in the Governor record group (collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search#/item/aims-...).
Archives Reference: G36 Box 1
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This is part of my 'issues set'. i will be taking pictures of the issues i have had to watch people go through!
"What I am building now is an everlasting house"
"Witch, they call my fingers, but not me"
"I thought I wanted to live, make water drops in an already new water"
"The eyelashes expand, that way she can braid them"
"And the sea, we have to lift the sea"
"Without remembering where it is"
"She picks up a chestnut, third this autumn"