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John Lydon is the Masked Singer. Truly these are the end times.
January 10, 2026 at 8:29 PM
John Lydon is the Masked Singer. Truly these are the end times.
BSECS 2026, Day Three reviewed. #BSECS2026 conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/b...
BSECS 2026, Day Three reviewed.
Oh that sound, that saddest sound of the young year! Trundle trundle trundle. Trundle trundle trundle trundle. The sound of the wheeled suitcase against cobblestone denoting the final day of an aca…
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January 10, 2026 at 1:10 PM
BSECS 2026, Day Three reviewed. #BSECS2026 conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/b...
BSECS 2026, Day 2, Reviewed. #BSECS2026 conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/b...
BSECS 2026, Day 2, Reviewed
The day for me began with a discussion of all things R.B Sheridan – R.B Sheridan the theatre dude, R.B. Sheridan the political orator, and R. B. Sheridan the cartoon. The papers that unpacked…
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January 9, 2026 at 10:46 AM
BSECS 2026, Day 2, Reviewed. #BSECS2026 conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/b...
BSECS 2026, Day One, reviewed. #BSECS2026. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/b...
BSECS 2026, Day One, reviewed.
This was my Day One. Nobody else’s. ‘Twas an icy day in Oxford, and I hopped awkwardly along the High St to get to the venue, looking to find gritty friction where gritty friction was t…
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January 8, 2026 at 1:45 PM
BSECS 2026, Day One, reviewed. #BSECS2026. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/b...
More scandalous revelations about eminent academics whose names are barely covered by coughing fits please! #BSECS2026
January 8, 2026 at 12:21 PM
More scandalous revelations about eminent academics whose names are barely covered by coughing fits please! #BSECS2026
Big police presence in Oxford this morning… what’s up? #BSECS2026
January 8, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Big police presence in Oxford this morning… what’s up? #BSECS2026
It's beginning to smell a lot like BSECS... #BSECS2026 conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/i...
It’s beginning to smell a lot like BSECS…
And so I wake again on the morning of my favourite time of year – the dawning of a large eighteenth-century studies conference. In advance of my one day being unable to attend such events, it…
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January 7, 2026 at 6:28 AM
It's beginning to smell a lot like BSECS... #BSECS2026 conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/i...
The Unnatural Trade. By Brycchan Carey. Reviewed conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/t...
The Unnatural Trade. By Brycchan Carey. Reviewed
For some years now, Brycchan Carey has been combining the study of the transatlantic slave trade with a discussion of environmental awareness and environmental degradation during the (very) long ei…
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January 6, 2026 at 4:31 PM
The Unnatural Trade. By Brycchan Carey. Reviewed conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/t...
“Was I truly wafted here from paradise…?” NAH! #BSECS2026
January 6, 2026 at 10:42 AM
“Was I truly wafted here from paradise…?” NAH! #BSECS2026
Too close to the event? Possibly? conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/t...
Too close to the event? Possibly?
I’m going to be wrong about a great many things Venezuelan. I rejoice that Maduro the gangster tyrant is no longer running the place, but I’m concerned that the US administration is tre…
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January 4, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Too close to the event? Possibly? conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/t...
Trump has now declared out loud that other nation states in the Americas only exist at the pleasure of the United States. In effect - no other nation enjoys sovereignty.
January 3, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Trump has now declared out loud that other nation states in the Americas only exist at the pleasure of the United States. In effect - no other nation enjoys sovereignty.
Happy Birthday J.R.R. Tolkien. Oh, and Clement Attlee. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2020/01/03/h...
Happy Birthday J.R.R. Tolkien. Oh, and Clement Attlee.
Nobody seems to have remembered Tolkien’s eleventy-first birthday back in 2003, which is a great shame. I suppose it was before the age of social media – but still. Think of the party…
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January 3, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Happy Birthday J.R.R. Tolkien. Oh, and Clement Attlee. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2020/01/03/h...
George Martin would have been 100 years old today. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2016/01/04/h...
George Martin would have been 100 years old today.
I mourned his passing, partly because I would have loved to have met him, somehow and somewhere but also because he, more than anyone else, was best placed to cut through the stupid zero-sum argume…
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January 3, 2026 at 10:56 AM
George Martin would have been 100 years old today. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2016/01/04/h...
‘Would I lie to You?’ followed by ‘The Traitors’. That’s two hours of relentless televisual mendacity ain’t it?
January 2, 2026 at 8:05 PM
‘Would I lie to You?’ followed by ‘The Traitors’. That’s two hours of relentless televisual mendacity ain’t it?
How would you do on Traitors? conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/h...
How would you do on Traitors?
I’ve been giving this far too much thought. I should be writing papers and books and replying to email. Any spare time I have after that ought to be devoted to Project “Rage against the…
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January 2, 2026 at 11:33 AM
How would you do on Traitors? conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/h...
Reposting on the anniversary of the first performance on this hymn. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2024/04/30/t...
The most moving rendition of Amazing Grace?
No it’s not Spock’s funeral at the end of Wrath of Khan. The most expressive use of the hymn Amazing Grace ever film was in an episode of Cheers originally broadcast on the 25th May, 19…
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January 1, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Reposting on the anniversary of the first performance on this hymn. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2024/04/30/t...
Lulu’s looking great. I want to hear her sing ‘Shout’ like she’s telling John Lennon to leave Patti alone at that party back in 1967.
January 1, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Lulu’s looking great. I want to hear her sing ‘Shout’ like she’s telling John Lennon to leave Patti alone at that party back in 1967.
James Boswell's New Year Resolutions. Complete conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2015/12/31/j...
James Boswell’s New Year Resolutions. Complete
“I resolve to be a bit less of an arse next year” James Boswell, Dec. 31, 1763. “I resolve to dial back my being an arse level back to its 1763 setting.” James Boswell, 31 …
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December 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Reposting on the anniversary of the Battle of Wakefield. It just gets worse. Or Better. The 1980s BBC Henry VI Part III. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2017/05/20/i...
It just gets worse. Or Better. The 1980s BBC Henry VI Part III.
The set is starting to look really shabby here. The adventure playground (aka England) is actually falling apart and is no longer safe for children to play in. Vandals have been at work – b…
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December 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Reposting on the anniversary of the Battle of Wakefield. It just gets worse. Or Better. The 1980s BBC Henry VI Part III. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2017/05/20/i...
Shooting the messenger who brings good news. How to talk sanely about crime? conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/s...
Shooting the messenger who brings good news. How to talk sanely about crime?
. I’ve not lived in London for many years and I’ll never live there again but I retain an affection for the place that made me. Whenever I land at Heathrow (or even Luton) a warm glow o…
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December 29, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Shooting the messenger who brings good news. How to talk sanely about crime? conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/s...
The Tay Bridge Disaster. OTD 1879. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2020/12/28/t...
The Tay Bridge Disaster. OTD 1879.
When crossing the river Tay on your way to Dundee, the traces of this disastrous bridge still protrude ominously from the water adjacent to the far more resilient bridge that your train is perched …
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December 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The Tay Bridge Disaster. OTD 1879. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2020/12/28/t...
Groovy kinds of love. Milton's Loves by Rosamund Paice. Reviewed. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/g...
Groovy kinds of love. Milton’s Loves by Rosamund Paice. Reviewed.
I used to teach Milton, a decade or more ago. Reading Paice’s detailed and erudite study of Milton’s ways of loving, I was reminded of some of the criticism and controversy that I used …
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December 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Groovy kinds of love. Milton's Loves by Rosamund Paice. Reviewed. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/g...
Well, my telephone rang it would not stop
It’s President Kennedy callin’ me up
He said, “My friend, Bob, what do we need to make the country grow?”
I said, “My friend, John...
... Brigitte Bardot."
It’s President Kennedy callin’ me up
He said, “My friend, Bob, what do we need to make the country grow?”
I said, “My friend, John...
... Brigitte Bardot."
December 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Well, my telephone rang it would not stop
It’s President Kennedy callin’ me up
He said, “My friend, Bob, what do we need to make the country grow?”
I said, “My friend, John...
... Brigitte Bardot."
It’s President Kennedy callin’ me up
He said, “My friend, Bob, what do we need to make the country grow?”
I said, “My friend, John...
... Brigitte Bardot."
Everyone remember where we parked. Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home, reviewed. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/e...
Everyone remember where we parked. Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home, reviewed.
1986 is another country. They do things differently there. It is not just the Star Trek crew who are transported back in time to an uncanny world. We are too. In fact, shockingly, Kirk and Spock ar…
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December 27, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Everyone remember where we parked. Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home, reviewed. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/e...