It’s a long time since I read Silas but I enjoyed it. Her most ‘human’ novel, I think. I’ve never been able to finish The Mill but Middlemarch is really worth perservering with, although hard going in parts.
Losing? 😂
#OTD (Sep 10) in the year 1515: Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal. #OTDIH #history 🗃️ #EarlyModern
Thomas Wolsey was an English statesman and Catholic cardinal. When Henry VIII became King of England in 1509, Wolsey became the king's almoner. Wolsey's affairs prospered and by 1514 he had become the controlling figure in virtually all matters of state. He also held important ecclesiastical appointments. These included the Archbishop of York—the second most important role in the English church—and that of papal legate. His appointment as a cardinal by Pope Leo X in 1515 gave him precedence over all other English clergy.
#OnThisDay in London radical history, 1962: nazi meetings in the East End scattered by anti-fascists wp.me/p74yfw-1cA
The first half of the 1950s was a quiet time for antifascists in the UK. The postwar threat of fascist revival in the form of Oswald Mosley’s Union Movement, had been battered off the streets largely ...
We're here now full time, account at the other place has been locked because we're under 13, and I can't be arsed to give them all our data to retrieve it.
I feel proud of our side this morning. (Only saw L'pool on TV/Man C on radio.) Apart from individual errors during a short spell yesterday, we put up a respectable performance against a team that can bring £100m player on as a sub. If we concentrate on beating the bottom 2/3rds of table, shd be OK.