Fiction Father Brown: The Blue Cross 9 Mar 20179 Mar 2017 Between the silver ribbon of morning and the green glittering ribbon of sea, the boat touched Harwich and let loose a swarm of folk like flies, among whom the man…
G.K.'s Weekly “Lions: Real, Heraldic, and Symbolic” 28 Mar 201624 Feb 2017 Illustrated London News – November 11, 1905 Sir Thomas Browne, whose tercentenary was celebrated at Norwich the other day, was, as everybody knows, a medical man. He was a rather curious…
G.K.'s Weekly “Detectives and Detective Fictions” 26 Mar 201631 Mar 2016 Illustrated London News - November 4, 1905 I wonder what real detectives are like. It may be that my life has been abnormally placid but I have never wanted to…
G.K.'s Weekly “Fanaticism in the Suburbs” 19 Jan 20164 Feb 2016 Illustrated London News - October 21, 1905 Perhaps the two most important people in our civilization at present are the two elderly ladies who defended their residence with drawn swords. They are…
G.K.'s Weekly “Serious Things in Holiday Time London” 22 Dec 201531 Mar 2016 Illustrated London News - October 14, 1905 I cannot imagine why this season of the year is called by journalists the Silly Season: it is the only season in which men have…