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19 December 2008
No fairytale

Well, yesterday evening, I began to step - tentatively - into Christmas. I've not yet reached the stage where I feel inclined to deck the halls with boughs of holly (always amuses me that: I think of encountering a group of people called Hall and setting Read More...

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17 December 2008
Inside track

So far, not so good. That's my experience to date of the much vaunted faster and more frequent train service between Birmingham and London, launched this week. Reduced catering yesterday morning (defective oven) and an alarming bang and flash in the Rugby Read More...

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12 December 2008
Writer's blog

I've never thought of myself as a "writer" - but I've done a lot of writing over the years. There were the two book-length monographs - one on Elizabethan dramatist Thomas Heywood, one on eighteenth century man of letters William Shenstone - which got Read More...

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12 December 2008
Against all odds

To the British Library on Monday evening, to confer CILIP Honorary Fellowship on Dr Saad Eskander, Director-General of the Iraq National Library and Archive. Details and a photo of the event are elsewhere on the CILIP website and a full report will appear Read More...

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12 December 2008
Centraal news

Early December always means a trip to Den Haag for meetings of the IFLA Governing Board - although no chance this time (unlike last year) for tourism: this was strictly a working visit. Arriving at Den Haag Centraal on the train from Schiphol airport Read More...

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