1. Presidential flavour In 'leanor Barnett’s timely recipe this month, I was fascinated to discover that future president Thomas Jefferson played a key role in introducing vanilla ice-cream to the United States (page 99). 2. Singled out
“When the gates of the last Magdalene laundry closed in 1996, Ireland moved on, or so it seemed. The laundries have remained one of the most misunderstood chapters of Irish history.” In Ireland, many thousands condemned as ‘fallen women’...
“A pioneering explorer, geographer and suffragette, Fanny Bullock Workman stands out among a cast of intrepid figures who took the limits of human attainment to new and ever more precipitous heights.” While in Spain and Algeria, Fanny saw...
