Flashman – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

March tweets

More Czechs, Spike Jones, Brexit, burning Guy, Child Ballads, copyright, Robin Hood’s two pricks, and so on.

Tatraplan by Blahoslaw Rozboril & Josef Daňka at the Pražák Palace bit of the Moravian Gallery in Brno.

Daily Mail confuses Rudyard Kipling with George MacDonald Fraser

Here (thanks JD): Rudyard Kipling, renowned for his brilliant books celebrating marital glory at the height of the British Empire, was also left a broken man when John â€“ a chronically short sighted teenager â€“ was cut down in the mud and rain of northern France. So perhaps not really. I suppose Kipling might now…

Why I’m called Trevor

Or, rather, how my grandfather seems to have been named after a minor railway station.

Drunk and disorderly

A British soldier’s hazy recollections of civil war in Portugal.