by Rebecca Reed, CRM Executive. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was published in 1865 by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll. Three years before this date Charles rowed a boat up the Isis on the 4th July 1862 with Reverend Robinson Duckworth, Lorina Charlotte Liddell, Alice Pleasance Liddell and Edith Mary […]
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Gunpowder | A Tale of Treason
By Rebecca Reed, CRM Executive. With many celebrating Bonfire Night over the past weekend, we thought we would take a look back into the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, it was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of English Catholics led by Robert Catesby. These […]
Banned Books.
By Les Phipps Throughout history, there have always been books that have been banned for various reasons, whether this is political, racism, bigotry, sex, homophobia, religion, there are hundreds of reasons why even down to the cover, not the content. Books have been banned, some quite correctly and some for more dubious and sinister reasons […]