It was evident from the writings of MO diarists that everyday people reacted to the news of the war in disparate ways; far from the homogeneous “Blitz-spirit” narrative perpetuated by government newsreels.
Category: BOOK REVIEWS
Distancing rules relaxed for children
Younger children will no longer have to follow distancing rules when meeting other children or adults outdoors in Scotland.
BOOK REVIEW by ANDREW O’HAGAN
Self-Hugging Andrew O’Hagan Boswell’s Presumptuous Task by Adam Sisman. Hamish Hamilton, 352 pp., £17.99, November 2000, 0 241 13637 7 James Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’: Research Edition: Vol. II edited by Bruce Redford and Elizabeth Goldring.
SUNSHINE AS FM TAKES THE LOCK OUT OF LOCKDOWN
Last, but not least for many of us, we intend that hairdressers and barbers will reopen from 15 July. [Applause.] Other personal retail services will remain closed until a later date.
BOOK REVIEW: LEAVE THEM WEEPING
Two hundred years after his birth into slavery, Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist and writer once described as ‘an ornament to society and a blessing to his race’, looms munificently over the city he visited during a speaking tour of Ireland in 1845.
BOOK REVIEW: SPECIAL READ FOR FATHER’S DAY
In Ulysses, Stephen describes his father, Simon, in words that fit Joyce’s father, John Stanislaus Joyce: “A medical student, an oarsman, a tenor, an amateur actor, a shouting politician, a small landlord, a small investor, a drinker, a good fellow, a storyteller, somebody’s secretary, something in a distillery, a taxgatherer, a bankrupt and at present a praiser of his own past.”