Wessex, Mercia, and the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect
In a speech given in 2002, Michael Crichton, of Jurassic Park fame, coined the term, ‘Gell-Mann Amnesia effect’.
Author: Kit Ward
Forgotten writers are a thing of the past
I recently caught up with a 2017 article by the critic BD McClay, ‘Enough with the “forgotten” writers’, in which she expresses her impatience with the regular flow of literary essays in which ‘forgotten’ writers are praised.
La Goulue: rags to riches to rags
Of the books I’ve read to glean some historical background for my Calypso Bergere Mysteries series, my favourite is Janet Flanner’s Paris Was Yesterday, 1925–1939.
Hello world
One of the simple pleasures of having your own website is seeing which countries in the world its visitors come from. My These Islands site reached its fifth birthday this year but it still amazes me to see the global reach of what is really an obscure personal project.