Category: Wessex

Clarissa Eden’s father was the younger brother of Winston Churchill. Her mother was the daughter of the seventh Earl of Abingdon. She was born into an upper-class society which still, as in Trollope’s novels, was organised to bring daughters into contact with eligible husbands at summer balls. A beauty, with her mother’s blue eyes, […]

Service Awards

PSA wishes to thank members who sacrifice their time to help the organization and these awards are usually presented by all divisions on an annual basis. However presenting Service Awards is a first for EID. The following awards were issued at the Annual International Conference in Tucson:

* Recognition […]

And so we enter the Christmas books season, a phase in the publishing calendar so terrifying, so utterly without hope, that more sensitive bookbuyers may wish to hide in second-hand bookshops, or under their beds, until it’s all over. But amidst the piles of useless non-books in Borders and Waterstones, probably right at the […]

It is a long time since I have incited homophobic hatred against anyone; I think I was about nine years old the last time it occurred. My mother had patiently explained to me that homosexuals were like vampire bats, passing on disease and filth through their ghastly and peculiar sexual practices. Her colourful image […]

Caught in the centre of a soundless field While hot inexplicable hours go by What trap is this? Where were its teeth concealed?

You seem to ask.

‘Myxomatosis’ by Philip Larkin Aldbourne, Wiltshire.

I saw the rabbit, a young doe, 50 yards or so down the path. ‘Look, ‘ I […]

This article is going to discuss artifacts, pyramids and a place called Stonehouse. It will even use the word “relic.” But this isn’t about archeology or ancient history. Instead, it is about advanced manufacturing in the 21st Century and one company’s strategic vision for rapidly developing new products while maintaining competitive manufacturing in […]

The county of Dorset on England’s south coast is a county of great contrast but one that will reward the determined traveller again and again. Take a break from driving and jump the three-hour rail journey from London Waterloo to Bournemouth. Deer can often be seen as you pass through the New Forest after […]

Chipping Campden and its neighboring villages of Broad Campden and Blockley are set on the edge of the Cotswolds. However, it is quite easy to live in or near the Cotswolds and to never have heard of Chipping Campden, let alone to have visited this small Cotswold town.

So why do so many more people visit […]

The Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League have a proud and successful history. Known as “America’s Team”, they are a favorite among football enthusiasts in the State of Texas, North America and globally, as well. The team is also very well known for its cheerleaders, the world famous Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Through the years […]

V. S. Naipaul is one of the more striking figures of the great Indian literary diaspora. Yet he was not born in India and has never lived there. His family were originally impoverished high-caste peasants from the region of Gorakhpur. His grandfather migrated to Trinidad as an indentured servant at the end of the […]