Archive for June 25th, 2012

Last Chance London

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It’s your last chance to show us what the Swinging City looks like to your London Eye. Submit your photo and tell us why you love it before it’s too late to win an advance copy of London: A Social and Cultural History, 1550–1750.      

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David Tranah on Alan M. Turing

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For your lunchtime listening: Cambridge editorial director David Tranah on republishing Sara Turing’s 1959 biography of her brilliant son.

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Henrietta Darwin’s Diary: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Part Two

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In June 1871 Henrietta met Richard Buckley Litchfield, a barrister and lecturer in music at the London Working Men’s College; they were married in the parish church in her parents’ village of Downe, Kent, on 31 August. The intimate and deeply reflective journal entries from July, which hint at originally unrequited passion, cover the period of their courtship. Reading at times like teenage romantic fiction, with all the agonies of uncertainty and longing, it also dissects Henrietta’s reasons for choosing to be married in church–a decision she did not reach lightly–and her sadness at leaving her parents.

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