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- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Greensward
- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
- What’s New for the 26th of April: the nature of Stories; some new and newish SF, plus new world, jazz, folk and Americana music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
- What’s New for the 12th of April: Some new and recent SF; new Americana, Norwegian folk rock and jazz; and thoughts on War For The Oaks
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of March: Beer and spirits, in song and text, some new Scandinavian fiddle music and jazz flute music, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
- What’s New for the 15th of March: some DeLint stories for early spring; lots of polskas, Serbian folk rock, progressive jazz, and Nordic music from the archives
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hedge Witches
- What’s New for the 1st of March: Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks, Rosanne Cash’s ‘Runaway Train’, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, plus new Americana and jazz music
- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
- What’s New for the 15th of February: Some Seanan McGuire fantasy, Alison Bechdel’s latest, Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin; Nordic sounds, old time, Americana and Tex-Mex music
- What’s New for the 1st of February: Kage Baker retrospective; new Americana, Buddhist chants and Finnish songs, new and reissued jazz, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Fireplaces in Kinrowan Hall
- What’s New for the 18th of January: World music and fiction by Amal El-Mohtar
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bridges and Paths plus a Troll
- What’s New for the 4th of January: Favorite books and music of 2025
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Mythologist John Campbell
- What’s New for 21st of December
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Pub Ghoulies
- What’s New for 7 of December: books by Alan Garner, and holiday music new and old, Celtic, Americana, jazz and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Several Annies, Part Two
- What’s New for 23 November
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Several Annies
- What’s New for the 9th of November: rhymers and ravens, folk songs and folk tales, jazz guitar and dark forests and constellations put to music, Hungarian tunes and knights and rakes and tinkers and fools, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Kedgeree
- Whats New for the 26th of October: some Patricia McKillip books and an interview, ’70s jazz reissues, Nordic Americana and American Americana, and some Samhain seasonal albums
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Charles and Alice Pay a Visit (A Letter to Owyn)
Tag Archives: history
Judith M. Bennett’s Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England
It is not a commonly known fact that in the 14th century in England most beer and ale brewed for sale was brewed by women. Three hundred years later it was an industry run by men. One of the changes … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Food and Drink
Tagged food and drink, history
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Daniel Karaczun’s Out of This Kitchen: A History of the Ethnic Groups and Their Foods in Steel Valley
Food is part of the daily life of everyone, but the labouring class that worked in particularly dangerous occupations such as mining and steel making came to consider food more than something that you ate to keep going: food was … Continue reading
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Tagged American sports history, food and drink, history
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Ronald C. Finucane’s Miracles and Pilgrims: Popular Beliefs in Medieval England
Laurie Thayer wrote this review. Imagine that for the past several days, you have been suffering an unexplained pain. Over-the-counter pain relievers have not helped. Finally, you decide to take time off work and visit the doctor’s office. She quickly … Continue reading
Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana’s Pretty Boy Floyd, Michael Wallis’s Pretty Boy, and Jeffery S. King’s The Life and Death of Pretty Boy Floyd
Craig Clarke wrote this review. “There’s no excuse for dressing like trash in this line of work.” – Charles Arthur Floyd in McMurtry and Ossana’s Pretty Boy Floyd When did criminals become our national heroes? Names like Bonnie and Clyde, … Continue reading
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Tagged historical fiction, history
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s The Age of Homespun
Subtitled “Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth,” The Age of Homespun is a collection of meticulously detailed historical yarns spun around a number of household artifacts created and initially used in New England during the late … Continue reading
Chester Brown’s Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography
In the USA, history has been used as a basis for all sorts of entertainment. Novels, films and television shows have long been built out of the legends of American history. And so American history might have been distorted in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Graphic Literature
Tagged Canadian history, comics, history
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BBC’s I, Claudius; and The Epic That Never Was
Craig Clarke wrote this review. Based on two novels by Robert Graves, the BBC’s I, Claudius was a groundbreaking miniseries, and is still today considered by some to be the totem by which all other miniseries are measured. It stars … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient history, BBC, history, Roman Empire
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Alan Moore & José Villarrubia’s The Mirror of Love
We gasped upon Devonian beaches, huddled under Neolithic stars. Spat blood through powdered teeth, staining each other as we kissed. Always we loved. How could we otherwise, when you are so like me, my sweet, but in a different guise. … Continue reading
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Tagged history, queer history
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Larry Gonick’s The Cartoon History of the Modern World, Part I
Harvard mathematician Larry Gonick continues his wildly successful Cartoon History of the Universe series with this book, an irreverent cartoon look at world history “From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution.” Anyone who loves history, comics or both should have this … Continue reading
Posted in Graphic Literature
Tagged comics, history
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Lauren Groff’s Matrix
Lauren Groff continues to make a name for herself as an author of unusual and engrossing fiction. This time she brings us a fast-paced tale of an unconventional nun in Medieval England, only a few years after the island emerged … Continue reading