Alistair McGowan as Henry Higgins
Bernard Shaw’s Pygamilion is on a UK tour a century after its opening night. The humour feels fresh and the message still matters.
Pygmalion review – this 2014 tour has energy, laughter and truth
Just nineteen – the words for winter and war are not easy
The ‘in-box’ at the Post Office
(Photograph: Royal Mail courtesy of British Postal Museum & Archive)
Charlie was on active service and his little sister waited for news in Africa. It was 1915 and nearly Christmas.
The letter below was what went into the envelope eventually, and the Post Office then made sure that it arrived where it was meant to.
Letter from a Rhodes Scholar on the Western Front
The Cavalry grazing horses on the Western Front (Creative Commons)
Photograph of the Western Front during the First World War. Official British war photographers took many for propaganda purposes.
From the papers of Field Marshal (Earl) Haig (1861-1928). The Haig Papers also contain Douglas Haig’s diaries.
It must have been hard to know what to say to your little sister in Africa when you were waiting to be sent into action during the First World War.
The Phraser 