Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in ‘British India’, a place he loved, settled awhile in the USA with his American wife […]
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in ‘British India’, a place he loved, settled awhile in the USA with his American wife […]
Lord Byron (George Gordon, 1788-1824) gave English literature the ‘Byronic hero’, seen in the novels of the Brontë sisters, for example. This […]
William Tyndale (c.1491-1536) from Gloucestershire was a martyr to the English language in his self-appointed though ultimately fatal mission to produce an […]
In his time, William Blake (1757-1827) was viewed by some as a nutcase. It was not until a generation after his poverty-stricken […]
Many of the common themes used in English fiction can be played out in a garden setting. The circle of life, coming […]
Old English (OE) was spoken from the 6th to the 11th centuries in England and southern Scotland. Many of our most common […]
With the advent of social media it has become all too apparent that many people are unaware of the correct use of […]
T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965) is hailed as the 20th century’s most influential poet, recognised in the award of the Nobel Prize […]
With an estimated million or more words in the English language now, you would think that no-one would ever be fumbling for […]
There were probably two related Indo-European tongues with Semitic layers in Britain before Old English. One was mainly in the hilly west […]
Elton John sang ‘Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word’ (1976), but this is simply not applicable to the British! It is […]
Shakespeare‘s play, ‘The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark’ (c.1602) is one in which almost everyone is killed, including Hamlet himself. […]
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