Culture
Diary: Barbara Millar
I never met my father-in-law. When I married his son Alan in 1987, James George Robins Millar would have been 98 years old. But I have always been fascinated by…
I never met my father-in-law. When I married his son Alan in 1987, James George Robins Millar would have been 98 years old. But I have always been fascinated by…
As the COVID-19 epidemic rises towards its peak, memories of an earlier time come crowding back. As the Second World War drew to a close, parents dreaded the recurrent epidemics…
CULTURE War paint Books of the month: Andrew Hook Sketch by Fred Farrell A Chasm in Time, Scottish War Art and Artists in the Twentieth Century, by Patricia R Andrew,…
Many years ago Sir Alec Guinness appeared in the West End production of John Mortimer’s play ‘A Voyage Round My Father’. As I recall, the father was a blind barrister…
She chooses not to appear on public platforms, she doesn’t give interviews, and she longs to return to her previously ‘normal life’. But Pauline Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse who survived…