The Broken Compass
Mathew LyonsHistory, literature, art & wonder
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Review: The Traveller by Andrea Wulf
Even as a child, George Forster’s wanderlust was apparent. Born a few miles outside what is now Gdansk in 1754, he preferred rambling through the fields and forests to the company of family and friends. While his family sat and ate dinner h...
The writer's bookshelf: Daisy Dunn
Daisy Dunn is an award-winning classicist and writer. Her books include Catullus’ Bedspread: The Life of Rome’s Most Erotic Poet; In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny; and Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars.
Daisy’s mos...
First sight: Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
I first posted this in May last year, but having shared again its companion piece on Lolly Willowes a month or two back I thought it timely to bring this out from behind the paywall too. Plus it’s very much a summer’s day book, so it could...
History in plain sight: St Michael and All Angels at Copford, Essex
A pilgrimage and a revelation
I had always rather assumed that disdain for the county of Essex was a modern, if not a contemporary phenomenon; perhaps that’s just because I think of ‘Essex man’ and ‘Essex girl’ as Thatcher-era te…
The Writer's Bookshelf: Peter Ackroyd
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
Peter Ackroyd is a biographer, historian and novelist. He is the author of numerous best-selling books including Hawksmoor; London: The Biography; and a six-volume History of England, whic...
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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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