Peter Parker

Stretcher-parties wading through the morass sometimes took six hours to bring in casualties. Left: near Boesinghe, 1 August 1917 (from Chris McNabb’s Passchendaele 1917)

Drowning in mud and blood

29 July 2017 9:00 am

George Orwell’s suggestion that the British remember only the military disasters of the first world war is certainly being borne…

Denton Welch with baroque angel at Hadlow Road, Tonbridge, 1937

Undone by love

4 March 2017 9:00 am

On the Whitsun weekend of 1935 an art student called Denton Welch was knocked off his bicycle by a car…

Denton Welch with baroque angel at Hadlow Road, Tonbridge, 1937

Undone by love

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

On the Whitsun weekend of 1935 an art student called Denton Welch was knocked off his bicycle by a car…

In life divided

19 November 2016 9:00 am

The ten pallbearers at Thomas Hardy’s funeral in Westminster Abbey on 16 January 1928 included Kipling, Barrie, Housman, Gosse, Galsworthy,…