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Showing posts with label Shakespeare. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Shakespeare. Show all posts

Friday, 28 February 2020

80 More Gays Around the World: Part 6) Under Southern Rainbow Skies

Last time on “80 More Gays” : 12) Charles Robert Ashbee (1863-1942) built a villa on the site of an ancient temple, as did 13) Robert Kits...

Saturday, 23 April 2016

Romeo and Charlotte

It’s one of those quirky synchronistic facts that would be difficult to believe if it appeared in a work of fiction, but today we celebrat...

Wednesday, 26 August 2015

Around the World in 80 Gays : Part 17 - A Spy

LAST TIME : 48) Keith Tomlinson (b.1980) climbed Mount Elbrus in Russia, one of the 7 highest continental mountains (the Seven Summits), a...

Wednesday, 23 April 2014

The Food of Love

"If music be the food of love, play on". So wrote Shakespeare as the opening line of "Twelfth Night". On this St. Geo...

Tuesday, 23 April 2013

A Queer Achievement - A Return to Shakespeare

[Achievement – the name given in heraldry to the full pictorial representation of a coat of arms.] Following on from last year’s ...

Monday, 23 April 2012

Putting the Record Straight on - Shakespeare

Today is St. George’s Day, perhaps the only national day in the world which isn’t celebrated with a public holiday by its own country! I...

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Tony Scupham-Bilton: Nottingham, United Kingdom; I was born during a thunderstorm in the summer of 1960 and was brought up in a village in north Nottinghamshire. I attended the sort of school which practiced “history for girls, geography for boys”, but developed a love of history none-the-less.

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