by David West | Nov 13, 2025 | News
When I saw James Braid crop up in Wikipedia’s list for the 13th of November my immediate thought was of the golfer, one of the Great Triumvirate, with Harry Vardon and John Henry Taylor. But this James Braid saw a demonstration of animal magnetism by Charles...
by David West | Nov 12, 2025 | News
No not the Charlie Chaplin film. It’s just that the events I’m looking at for the 12th of November seem to be tilted towards modern times, rather than events of Sir Anthony Standen’s era. There isn’t much to link to my books. So what do we have? 1912 – the...
by David West | Nov 11, 2025 | News
On the 11th of November, 1880, the notorious bushranger, Ned Kelley was executed. I have posted about American outlaws, but haven’t touched Australia yet, so here goes. Ned Kelly, one of Australia’s most infamous historical figures, was an outlaw whose life and...
by David West | Nov 10, 2025 | News
On the 10th of November, 1871, Henry Morton Stanley found the missing explorer and missionary, David Livingstone in Ujiji close to Lake Tanganyika. This encounter symbolised the meeting of two worlds: the driven, resourceful journalist and adventurer sent on a mission...
by David West | Nov 9, 2025 | News
Kristallnacht shattered the lives of Jews across Nazi Germany on the night of the 9th/ 10th of November, 1938. The immediate pretext for Kristallnacht was the assassination of Ernst vom Rath, a German diplomat in Paris, by a 17-year-old Polish-Jewish refugee named...
