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This is the one of two posts on the notorious Mitford sisters. I have written about Jessica, Deborah and Nancy here, and this post is about Unity and Diana (Lady Mosley), the two dedicated fascists of the family. Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, Deborah and their brother Tom were born between 1904 and 1920 to …
In her 1771 novel Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim, Sophie von La Roche, writing no doubt for an audience of genteel ladies, portrayed the waltz as a "shameless, indecent whirling-dance [which] broke all the bounds of good breeding". The early version of the German waltz which she was describing was a variant of the Ländler, a …
Following several festive-themed posts, a three week Christmas break and the latest installment of Miss Tickletoby's Lectures on English History, now for something completely different. For most people in the Anglo-Saxon world at least, Danish history is a blank, perhaps filled in only by vague memories of Hamlet's line "something is rotten in the state …
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