Writing

Sunday round-up 22 June 2025

The Hampstead Tube opens, the title of "Emperor of India" is omitted from the royal style and titles, and St John Fisher and St Thomas More are…

Jun 22 •

Sunday round-up 15 June 2025

Magna Carta is agreed, the Battle of Kosovo is fought, birthday cake for Simon Callow, Noddy Holder, Xi Jinping and Ice Cube and we dance to mark St…

Jun 15 •

Sunday round-up 8 June 2025

Millicent Martin, Nancy Sinatra and Bonnie Tyler walk into a birthday party... and marking the Viking raid on Lindisfarne, St Jadwiga's Day and French…

Jun 8 •

Sunday round-up 1 June 2025

Birthdays for Morgan Freeman, Brian Cox and the "Son of Sam", Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen and Adolf Eichmann is executed

Jun 1 •

Sunday round-up 25 May 2025

The anniversary of the Edict of Worms, the resignation of the last Lord Protector and the return to England of Charles II & birthdays for Ian McKellen…

May 25 •

Sunday round-up 18 May 2025

Birthday greetings to Rick Wakeman, Toyah Willcox and a former Black Rod, marking the birth of Norman St John-Stevas and Somaliland's Independence Day

May 18 •

Sunday round-up 11 May 2025

The anniversary of the only assassination of a prime minister, birthdays for Eric Burdon and Jeremy Paxman, and 15 years since the Cameron/Clegg…

May 11 •

Sunday round-up 4 May 2025

The anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's appointment as Prime Minister in 1979, birthday wishes for George Will and Rory McIlroy, and it's Star Wars Day…

May 4 •

Sunday round-up 27 April 2025

Today in 1992 Betty Boothroyd was elected Speaker of the House of Commons, and Michael Fish, Anna Chancellor and the King of the Netherlands all…

Apr 27 •

Sunday round-up 20 April 2025

Surrexit dominus! if that's your thing, with birthday wishes to George Takei, Sebastian Faulks and Andy Serkis (but probably not Adolf Hitler)

Apr 20 •

Sunday round-up 13 April 2025

Candles for the peerless Edward Fox, the King of Buganda and Garry Kasparov, a decade since Günther Grass died, and the anniversary of Catholic…

Apr 13 •

Sunday round-up 6 April 2025

Birthdays include Roger Cook, John Ratzenberger and Rory Bremner, and it's Tartan Day, Waltzing Matilda Day and the feast of St Marcellinus of Carthage

Apr 6 •

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