Our friends at Slightly Foxed (the real readers' quarterly - buy a subscription now!) have once again kindly allowed The Dabbler to dip into its rich archives. We have handpicked this gem for you -- originally entitled A Splendid Attitude to Death -- from the Spring 2010 edition, in which ... Read More...
About Author Profile: Guest
Laura Noble is an artist, lecturer, serial blogger & author of The Art of Collecting Photography with primary essays in many photographic monographs & journals. This is her website and her blog is here. When browsing the shelves of a friend's library I was thrilled to find a selection of Japanese ... Read More...
Historian Juliet Gardiner is one of the leading commenters on British social history. Her book The Thirties: An Intimate History - which has recently been released in paperback - was described by The Telegraph as "a quite outstanding work of social history" for "the depth of its research, the quality of ... Read More...
Jason Webster is the author of five books on Spain, including Duende, which has been translated into a dozen languages. Or the Bull Kills You is the first in a series of detective novels involving Chief Inspector Max Cámara of the Spanish National Police. The second novel, Some Other Body ... Read More...
Simon Winder is the author of Germania, A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern. It was described by the Telegraph as 'an unusual and very entertaining tour of the oddities of German history'. Simon is also the author of The Man Who Saved Britain, a personal take on the impact of ... Read More...
Tim Birkhead's book The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology was described by The Telegraph as "one of the most entertaining, informative and enthusiastic accounts of the history of ornithology" and was voted ‘Best Bird Book of Year' by The British Trust for Ornithology and British Birds. In an exclusive ... Read More...
An unequivocal solo cream bun for quiz-whizz Adelephant this week. We might have to set up some sort of league table for these super-solvers. Anyway, well done to her, and thanks to Jonathan for a brilliantly fiendish question. (And also to John Halliwell for a far superior if incorrect answer). ... Read More...
This week's devilishly fiendish Round Blogworld Quiz question (see the previous ones and their solutions here) has been set by expert solver and friend of The Dabbler Jonathan Law. As usual, find the link between these cryptic clues. A point for each item you get, and an imaginary cream bun of ... Read More...
In our occasional feature we invite guests to select the six cultural links that might sustain them if, by some mischance, they were forced to spend eternity in a succession of airport departure lounges with only an iPad or similar device for company. Today's voyager, Norman Geras, is Professor Emeritus in ... Read More...
Historian Dr Craig Fox has just published his first book, Everyday Klansfolk - a study of the extraordinary popularity of the Ku Klux Klan in mainstream midwest American culture in the 1920s. Here, he tells the story of how he came to research this forgotten phenomenon... I was going to try ... Read More...
