Autochrome world

Autochrome colour pictures from the early 1900s, from the globe-spanning collection of Albert Kahn.Germany:Holland:Vietnam:Lots more here. (h/t Mike Beversluis) ... Read More...

Introducing Key’s Cupboard

Mr Frank Key, the legendary podcaster and proprietor of Hooting Yard, will be opening his Cupboard of interesting items in a weekly feature on The Dabbler, including exclusive Dabbler material. To whet your appetite, Frank has agreed to allow us to publish here the terrifying tale of a man who ... Read More...

Would you like some tacos with that?

“I’ve never tasted anything like this before,” said Tim Burroughs, a recent customer at Hankook Taqueria. “It’s as if they’re making up a cuisine as they go.” Korean tacos - forget cupcakes - are the next big thing apparently. Mexican-style taco shells 'stuffed with soy- and garlic-marinated beef, along with chicken ... Read More...

The Cobham Cuckoos

If you visit Longleat and safely negotiate the lions and herpes-infested monkeys, you can enter the vast Elizabethan mansion and – via a circuitous route taking in such stately home essentials as the Saloon, the Red Library and the Dress Corridor – finally arrive at the Grand Staircase, at the ... Read More...

River views

Let us start with the river - all things begin with the river and we shall probably end there, no doubt - but let's wait and see how we go. So begins William Boyd's most recent novel, Ordinary Thunderstorms. It began with the river in more ways than one according to ... Read More...

6 Clicks for the Endless Voyage: Brit

In Anthony Burgess’ short story The Endless Voyager, a businessman throws away his passport and wallet mid-transit and, unable to enter any country, spends the rest of his life shuttling from airport to airport. He eventually goes mad. Today, of course, such a traveller might stave off purgatorial insanity by ... Read More...