Charles Ellingworth

There were lots of things that I learned about France when I was writing Silent Night. Some were facts that I did not know before that gave ...

I went to a small literary festival yesterday and heard Juliet Nicholson talking about her book on 1936, the ‘year of three kings.’ In it sh...

Nearly two thirds of the world's land surface is desert and it's growing. Overgrazing has been seen as the problem but perhaps contr...

This is an interesting article about the insidious and malign consequences of inflation. It seems to be the route of preference for paying d...

  St Mary-le-Strand occupies one of the great sites of London. It and St Clement Danes, the RAF church, sit astride the Strand between Black...

This is a love letter written by Henry Miller to Anais Nin. As good as it gets.... August 14, 1932 Anais: Don't expect me to be sane any...

The ratio of men to women at university is now forty men to sixty women. Thirty years ago it was eighty men to twenty women. There are many ...