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Cristina Campo: Cartographer of Sunken Continents
If Cristina Campo is remembered at all outside her native Italy, it is usually because of her involvement with Una Voce, an organisation founded in 1964…
Apr 9
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March 2024
An ancient homily for Holy Saturday
As those of you who subscribe to my Narnian blog will know already, I love this ancient homily for Holy Saturday, so I thought I’d post the whole thing…
Mar 30
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Two Life-Changing Books
It’s a bold claim but I think it’s true: reading these two books (or even just one of them) could change your life. Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow was a…
Mar 16
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Eric Liddell in Fife and Aston
I had a lovely message this week from students at Ladybank Primary School in the Howe of Fife. They have been reading The Race and they sent me some…
Mar 16
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An Olympic Anniversary
100 years ago, one of the most significant Olympic Games of modern times was held in Paris. It was the Olympics of Paavo Nurmi, Johnny Weissmuller, and…
Mar 9
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February 2024
Which languages should we learn?
What about this for an idea for anyone who lives in the United Kingdom: shouldn't we all learn Welsh, Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Scots, Ulster Scots…
Feb 20
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January 2024
After the King
375 years ago today – on 30 January 1649 – King Charles I was executed on the orders of a tiny group of men. Britain’s revolution was complete. The…
Jan 30
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A Creative Writing Idea for Children
I love writing but I also realise that many children find it difficult, so how can we help them? One answer, I think, is to remove as many barriers as…
Jan 12
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January: a month of feasting
“During the Middle Ages the Christmas season lasted forty days, until Candlemas in 2 February, and January was supposed to be a month of feasting, not…
Jan 1
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December 2023
What our lives lack is what our hands fashion
“What our lives lack is what our hands fashion” is, I think, a quotation from a Neil Curry poem, though I can’t now find the poem itself. Wherever it’s…
Dec 18, 2023
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C. S. Lewis on reading
“he was sitting reading something, you know the way he does, with his fingers under some of the pages and a pencil in his hand – not the way you or I’d…
Dec 6, 2023
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Big Thoughts
Rethinking bird feeding
Dec 1, 2023
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