The Oldie - 2020-04-15

• Rake’s progress: My Political Midlife Crisis, by Rachel Johnson
• The China Journals: Ideology and Intrigue in the 1960s, by Hugh Trevor-roper
• Queen Victoria and the Romanovs: Sixty Years of Mutual Distrust, by Coryne Hall
• When Asian flu gave us the shivers
• Overlooked Britain: Penshaw Monument
• Film: The Great Buster
• My Holy Week in Israel
• Liberty hall – the resurgence of the local village hall
• One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time, by Craig Brown
• Memorial Service: Sir Michael Howard
• Gardening
• From the Brideshead Revisited film set…
• …to Evelyn Waugh’s smart set
• Modern Life: What is wireless charging?
• A Little History of Poetry, by John Carey
• The Old Un’s Notes
• Getting Dressed: Celia Philo
• Here, there and everywhere
• Olden Life: Who was Sexton Blake?
• Carefree oldies on the piste
• I Once Met… John Edgecombe
• Actress, by Anne Enright
• On the Road: Anne Glenconner
• Postcards from the Edge
• Bird of the Month: Song Thrush
• Thinking Again, by Jan Morris
• Media Matters
• Model behaviour
• Theatre: Upstart Crow
• The Doctor’s Surgery
• Letter from America
• Ode to Wordsworth
• Profitable Wonders
• Grumpy Oldie Man
• Never go back
• Kitchen Garden
• Words and Stuff
• Town Mouse
• Golden Oldies
• Country Mouse
• School Days
• Restaurant­s
• Digital Life
• Home Front
• Exhibition­s
• Television
• Gyles Brandreth’s Diary
• Ask Virginia Ironside
• Motoring
• God Sister Teresa
• Readers’ Letters
• Memory Lane
• Crossword
• Two wheels v two feet on Regent’s Canal
• Love it and list it
• PROVIDENCE LOST
• A HOUSE IN THE MOUNTAINS
• CHECKPOINT CHARLIE
• BLACK WAVES
• LADIES CAN’T CLIMB LADDERS
• PRIESTS DE LA RESISTANCE!
• THE STORY OF YOGA
• LEADERSHIP IN WAR
• EIGHT DAYS AT YALTA
• THE NORTHUMBRI­ANS
• STARING AT GOD
• ISLAND STORIES
• PARISIAN LIVES
• THIS DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU
• LADY IN WAITING
• THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN
• BREAKING & MENDING
• MUTUAL ADMIRATION SOCIETY
• A DAY LIKE TODAY
• THE SHAPELESS UNEASE
• BETWEEN THE STOPS
• HAPPINESS AND TEARS
• THE CONTENDER
• Forgotten authors
• FROM RUSSIA WITH BLOOD
• BETWEEN TWO FIRES
• CATCH AND KILL
• THE MERITOCRAC­Y TRAP
• JOSEPH CONNOLLY
• IN LOVE WITH GEORGE ELIOT
• GRANDMOTHE­RS
• INDEPENDEN­CE SQUARE
• THE COCKROACH
• NOVEL HOUSES
• SHORT LIFE IN A STRANGE WORLD
• EMILY BEARN on books for all ages
• Russian literature
• Paperbacks
• The Oldie Blog

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