This week I thought I'd tell a sad little story that I think could be more widely known. Most of what follows is collated from Wikipedia. It's the story of Sophia Dorothea of Celle. She was born in 1666, daughter of the Duke of Brunswick-Luneberg by...
My friend and cover-artist Ian Storer has previously written for this blog. He will shortly be publishing “Taken Things”, the first in a series of tales set around the so-called Unnatural History Museum, the workplace of Dr Speedwell and Polly Nightingale. I asked him to...
I once read a romantic novel about a Scottish woman and an English man, set during the reign of Henry VII. Despite culture clash being a major feature of the story, the author did not appear to know that Henry VII of England did not...
The second thing for which God is responsible, and which surely must have been planned by Him, is the passage of time. (For the first thing, see God’s Responsibility 1, 13th May.) It looks from the New Testament as if all its writers, and Jesus Himself, expected...
The second guest on the blog is Ian Storer. All the pictures on the site that are not maps or photographs are his work (see the World, Books and SWM sections). A visit to his website (scipio6.wix.com/scipio-designs) displays more of his artwork in drawing and...
My mother, Ursula Hall, who was a historian, wrote about St Andrew and his somewhat tenuous connection to Scotland. In an unpublished work she commented on the rapid spread of the Christian church in the decades after its founding. “These [the apostles] were the men...