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What Price History? Rewriting the Newtown Anti-Eviction Battle of 1931
‘I was in the front room upstairs when I heard someone on the balcony say “Here they are!” I looked out the door and saw the street full of police with…
Aug 21
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Nadia Wheatley
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Lamb with Nonsense
Given the amount of death and darkness lately in this Substack (not to mention the world), I thought I might have a bit of a nostalgic rave about Greek…
Aug 6
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Nadia Wheatley
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July 2025
A Vocation for Reading: The Legacy of Aidan Chambers
‘Do you realise our names are a palindrome?’
Jul 16
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Nadia Wheatley
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From Jonathan Jo to J. Alfred Prufrock: Learning Poetry for Life
Jul 2
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Nadia Wheatley
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From Jonathan Jo to J. Alfred Prufrock: Learning Poetry for Life
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June 2025
From Bloomsday to the Winter Solstice: Celebrating Martin Clift Johnston
Bloomsday (16 June) was always a milestone in Martin Johnston’s year: an opportunity to combine his love of James Joyce’s Ulysses with his enjoyment of…
Jun 18
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Nadia Wheatley
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From Bloomsday to the Winter Solstice: Celebrating Martin Clift Johnston
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Sex in the Citadel: Crossing boundaries of class and culture in Charmian Clift’s novel Honour’s Mimic
Celebrating the republication of Clift's radical 1960s novel.
Jun 3
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Nadia Wheatley
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Sex in the Citadel: Crossing boundaries of class and culture in Charmian Clift’s novel Honour’s Mimic
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May 2025
Listening to Story
Growing up in the World Before Television, I received my earliest stories through my ears, not through my eyes.
May 21
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Nadia Wheatley
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Hamburg: Between War and Hope
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May 8
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Nadia Wheatley
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April 2025
Easter on Kalymnos (2): Season of Brightness
Epitaphios, dynamites, Judas, Mouri are all part of the celebration.
Apr 30
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Nadia Wheatley
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Easter on Kalymnos (1): Signs of what is to come...
The Dodecanese island of Kalymnos is famous for the excessive fervour of its Paschal celebrations, which include 'dynamites' as well as red eggs and…
Apr 23
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The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
How the Concentration Camp was handed over to the British by the Germans in a unique World War II truce
Apr 15
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Nadia Wheatley
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The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
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The Book that Saved my Life
Apr 12
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Nadia Wheatley
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