by David West | Nov 12, 2024 | News
I noted in a recent post that I was born on Guy Fawkes Day. The Best Picture Academy Award, along with ten other Oscars, the year I was born went to Ben Hur. The book on which the film was based, Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ, was published on 12th November 1880. Lew...
by David West | Nov 11, 2024 | News
I have posted about the invention of the ballpoint pen and the printing press recently. The Einstein refrigerator, invented by Albert Einstein and his former student Leo Szilard in 1926, on the 11th November I’m told, was an innovative cooling device that sought to...
by David West | Nov 10, 2024 | News
The tenth of November 1630 was a critical day in an ambitious attempt to overthrow Cardinal Richelieu, France’s powerful chief minister, shook the political landscape of France. Known as the “Day of the Dupes,” this dramatic failed “palace revolution” revealed the...
by David West | Nov 9, 2024 | News
Charles Neville was one of the leaders of the Northern Rebellion of 1569 and also a character in The Spy who Sank the Armada,the story of Sir Anthony Standen my 10th great-grandfather’s elder brother. I chose Neville because he was in the right places at the...
by David West | Nov 8, 2024 | News
The eighth of November seems to have been an important day in the history of libraries on both sides of the Atlantic, as both the Bodleian and Library Company of Philadelphia were founded on that day, in 1602 and 1731 respectively. The Bodleian Library is one of the...
