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A keen researcher of family ancestors, Henry will be reporting on the centenary of World War One. More Posts

The effects of the First (or Great) World War

There is little doubt that the nation’s fascination with all matters relating to WW1 will continue for centuries. The reasons for this are bound up in such issues its status as a major milestone on human society’s perhaps inevitable route to potential self-annihilation; the fact that [...]

August 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

What comes around

It so happens that, via a chance meeting a couple of years ago in a quite different context, this September I shall be setting off with an informal group of WW1 enthusiasts to tour a section of the battlefields of Verdun. Our plan is that, on the way back to the Eurotunnel terminal at Calais, we [...]

July 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

A life on the ocean wave

Earlier this year some neighbours of my father went on a ‘wrong way around the world’ sea cruise trip to New Zealand before eventually making the return journey by air. If memory serves, the sea cruise leg of their odyssey took them seven or eight weeks. Some time after they got back [...]

July 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

Another prodigy who fell in WW1

Here’s an article by Andy Bull that Rust readers and sports lovers everywhere should read – especially if (like me) you’d never heard or seen of Norman Callaway previously – as appears today on the website of  – THE [...]

May 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

No particular place to go

I had mixed feelings this week having read the media story about the UK petition calling for those over 70 to be given compulsory driving tests. It was started by a bereaved gentleman whose wife was mowed down whilst they walking along a pavement by an 83 year old pensioner whom, it appears, [...]

April 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Saying goodbye

Two funerals in the past fortnight for your author and as a direct result therefore also as few reflections upon mortality and life. As it happens, I was attending the first of them – of someone I barely knew – only as a companion to someone else, but yesterday’s farewell was to a formidable [...]

February 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

Comparing drama with reality

As someone who very rarely watches films these days – either in cinemas or at home via television, DVDs and downloads – I’m a little wary of venturing tentatively onto the territory patrolled by the Rust’s great Neil Rosen. Nevertheless, I trust that the powers-that-be will allow me [...]

January 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

EAST WEST STREET/PHILIPPE SANDS

EAST WEST STREET is a portrait of two eminent jurists and an investigation into the antecedents of international human rights lawyer Phillippe Sands. The common denominator is Lviv, a city sometimes in Poland but now in Ukraine as the two lawyers, Hirsch Lauterpacht and Raphael Lemkin both lived in [...]

January 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Remembering WW1

Yesterday I was privileged to be invited to an august institution for special screening of a new documentary film commemorating the connection between a particular sport and its contribution to the First World War. Its intentions were noble – to commemorate those players who had died or been [...]

November 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Just a thought

A fascinating aspect of what, for want of a better terms I shall call ‘major crises’ (whether they be over something cooked for an important dinner party at home that goes wrong, your local football team losing four games on the bounce, right through to national political impasses or even US [...]

November 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

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