Don't miss Alice in Teesside, Simon Farnaby's programme on Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland!
It was broadcast on Radio 4 last Thursday and is now on iplayer.
I can't help but think that their shared roots in the North East must have made for an extra bond between Carroll and Henry Savile Clarke, who wrote the first stage adaptation of the Alice books.
For the remarkable story of Henry Savile Clarke, go to my earlier blog posts - there are four of them, and this is the first.
Monday 9 November 2015
Wednesday 23 September 2015
'The Live Bait Squadron Remembrance Book'
Henk van der Linden is the founder of the the Live Bait Squadron Society and the author of The Live Bait Squadron: three mass graves off the Dutch coast.
Henk is now proposing to produce a commemorative volume called The Live Bait Squadron Remembrance Book.
It would be a large, high quality hardback book in colour. It would include a DVD of the moving documentary film The Live Bait Squadron made by Dutch diver & filmmaker Klaudie Bartelink (the film's in English!) and a DVD of the centenary commemoration at Chatham Historic Dockyard last year, which Klaudie also filmed. The book would include accounts of the disaster, its historical context, stories of the men (sent to Henk by their families and descendants), and details of the memorials erected to their memory ...
In order to get this book published, Henk needs to guarantee to his publisher that it will achieve a certain number of sales. So he needs a list of subscribers who will engage to buy the book when it becomes available. The price will be £40.
So if you are interested, contact Henk!
His email address is h.van.der.linden@tip.nl
(The only thing that might put you off is that I feature rather more in Klaudie's film than I ever expected when filming took place! I try not to think about it too much ...)
Henk is now proposing to produce a commemorative volume called The Live Bait Squadron Remembrance Book.
It would be a large, high quality hardback book in colour. It would include a DVD of the moving documentary film The Live Bait Squadron made by Dutch diver & filmmaker Klaudie Bartelink (the film's in English!) and a DVD of the centenary commemoration at Chatham Historic Dockyard last year, which Klaudie also filmed. The book would include accounts of the disaster, its historical context, stories of the men (sent to Henk by their families and descendants), and details of the memorials erected to their memory ...
In order to get this book published, Henk needs to guarantee to his publisher that it will achieve a certain number of sales. So he needs a list of subscribers who will engage to buy the book when it becomes available. The price will be £40.
So if you are interested, contact Henk!
His email address is h.van.der.linden@tip.nl
(The only thing that might put you off is that I feature rather more in Klaudie's film than I ever expected when filming took place! I try not to think about it too much ...)
Monday 7 September 2015
From Hutton Rudby to Nova Scotia in the 18th century
I have already mentioned in this blog the emigration from Hutton Rudby to Nova Scotia in the 18th century. It was prompted and encouraged by Charles Dixon (1730-1817), who owned the paper mill in the village (you will find a reference to him, for example, in this chapter on the Faceby Mormons).
As a result, quite a number of his fellow Methodists left the village for Canada.
I have just realised that the account of Charles Dixon's life can now be read online.
You will find it here – but if for any reason that link does not work, search for "Charles Dixon" and "Nova Scotia" and you will find it.
As a result, quite a number of his fellow Methodists left the village for Canada.
I have just realised that the account of Charles Dixon's life can now be read online.
You will find it here – but if for any reason that link does not work, search for "Charles Dixon" and "Nova Scotia" and you will find it.
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