A MURDEROUS SUICIDE W inter In Wales ales is nearly always bleak, and December of the year 1862 was no exception. In the valleys of the Rhondda, frost’s icy grip had given way to a cloak of swirling early morning mist when there rang a cry that in so...
THE QUALITY OF MERCY? U nless you happen to have been born in that year, for most people 1949 holds no special significance. 1949 was however the dawning of a short but potentially lethal dark age for all mankind. It was the year when the Russian bear...
BORN TO BE HUNG " His complexion and eyes are very dark; his features taken separately are not bad but in their totality present an expression of reckless defiance and a strong predominance of animal passions' N o, this is not a publicity blurb about...
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HARRY? A great many World-revolutionising events occurred in the early years of the 50’s. 1950 saw the start of McCarthyism in
CHILD OF GOD I n contrast to the region’s normally temperate, if wet climate, the month of January 1799 in
A FOGGY NIGHT IN
