The Broken Compass
Mathew LyonsHistory, literature, art & wonder
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Scribbling in the margins
This is a repost of a piece which I first published here in September 2024, not long after I started the Broken Compass. It is an extended version of something I wrote for the ‘Bookends’ column in Literary Review the previous year. It was c...
The writer's bookshelf: Jonathon Green
Jonathon Green is a writer and lexicographer of English slang. His is the author of numerous critically acclaimed books including The Stories of Slang, Crooked Talk, and Sounds & Furies: The Love-Hate Relationship between Women and Slang, a...
Tolkien's England: walking the Berkshire Downs
Where English landscape and myth intersect with Tolkien's writing and thought
This is a lightly edited version of a chapter from There and Back Again: In the Footsteps of JRR Tolkien, a book I wrote many years ago that attempted to trace t...
The writer's bookshelf: Dani Garavelli
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
Dani Garavelli is an award-winning writer, journalist, critic and columnist. She writes regularly for the Herald, London Review of Books, the Guardian, Prospect, the Times, and The Big Iss...
History in plain sight: four Anglo-Saxon churches to visit
My recent post about the church of St Michael and All Angels in Copford has proved to be one of the most popular pieces yet on the Broken Compass, so this seems an opportune moment to bring this post, first published here last May, out from...
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Writer. Historian. FRHistS. Recent work: History Today, The Spectator, Daily Telegraph, Engelsberg Ideas, Slightly Foxed, Literary Review.
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