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THE BLUE PENCIL

My novel, set between 1936 and 1939, has eerie echoes of today. From May 1937, Neville Chamberlain’s government restricted access to...

SEVENTY FIVE YEARS ON

The Durham Light Infantry and the Belsen Concentration Camp David Lowther Three-quarters of a century ago, soldiers from the 11th....

REMEMBER

January 27th. 1945 On this day in 1945, the 60th. Army of the First Ukranian Front arrived at a vast complex of of factories, camps,...

GODALMING: Town of Tales and Light

by DAVID LOWTHER Godalming is a town about 4 miles south of Guildford with a population of twenty-one thousand. My wife and I came to...

CLAUD COCKBURN 1904 – 1981

‘Believe nothing until it has been officially denied’ Claud Cockburn was a Marxist and a journalist whom some have called the father of...

EIGHTY YEARS AGO

Members of the UK electorate may be worried in 2019 about the consequences of the Brexit ‘war’ but the situation eighty years ago was far...

PEACE and the BIGGEST MISTAKE

Ten years ago I decided to take advantage of my retirement by doing some writing. As I had earlier taught some aspects of twentieth...