As sport returns from its spell on the bench, PAUL SAFFER looks at how it came back after World War I. Continue reading
Tag Archives: First World War
Imperial fiction: Alf’s Button
ALWYN TURNER reads a 1919 comedy about the Genie of the Lamp in the trenches of WW1. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Bindle
ALWYN TURNER on a home-front comedy from the Great War. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Penny Plain
ALWYN TURNER on a 1920 novel by Anna Buchan, aka O. Douglas. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Huntingtower
Is this 1922 novel John Buchan’s best thriller? ALWYN TURNER thinks so. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Lower than Vermin
ALWYN TURNER on Dornford Yates (beloved of both Michael Gove and Mark Gatiss) and his 1950 novel of lost England. Continue reading
The Great Silence
ALWYN TURNER tells the story of the first commemoration of Armistice Day in 1919. Continue reading
‘Plainly nuts’: A press portrait of Paul Nuttall
ALWYN TURNER looks at the career of Nigel Farage’s successor as UKIP leader. Continue reading
‘A wreath of poppies’
ALWYN TURNER on the early days of the British Legion’s Poppy. Continue reading
Remember remember (1916)
Commemorating Guy Fawkes night in the year of the Somme. Continue reading
No more heroes anymore?
ROGER HERMISTON wonders why the Lib Dems are so reluctant to draw on their rich heritage, and celebrates the career of Archibald Sinclair. Continue reading
All cricket on the Western Front
ALWYN TURNER celebrates the work of novelist and failed Liberal candidate AG Macdonell. Continue reading
