

- May 2, 2020
- 4 min
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...
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- Apr 14, 2020
- 3 min
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....
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- Jan 26, 2020
- 4 min
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,...
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- Nov 24, 2019
- 4 min
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...
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- Oct 14, 2019
- 3 min
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...
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- Jul 29, 2019
- 4 min
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...
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- Aug 25, 2018
- 5 min
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...
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