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When the  Classics Circuit announced that its latest tour was to take in pre-1840 gothic literature, a lightbulb went on (dimly, it must be...

“When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.   Whe...

This is the third  Classics Circuit Tour in which I’ve participated.   So far, I’ve written about an unfamiliar book by an author with whom...

I had a really hard time deciding what to write about for this month’s Classics Circuit  tour – the Ancient Greeks.  You see, I have history...

In November 1858, Trollope, in his day job as British civil servant, boarded the good ship Atrato and sailed from Southampton to Jamaica...

On 8 February 1904, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the Imperial Russian Far East Fleet at Port Arthur in South East Manchuria.   In a ...