Notes from the Field
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Recently I was writing a piece on amusement parks, not the theme parks that are around today, but rather the historic kind that really flourished in th…
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When I go to shop for clothes, I could be buying an outfit that wouldn’t look out of place in the 1950s, 1970s, or 1990s (except perhaps for the amount…
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I've written a couple of pieces recently about murder and crime. First, the Bath school bombing of 1927, and then I reviewed a book on the phenomenon o…
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In a piece for this month’s Spectator US, I review a book about the “girl stunt journalists” of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some of whose w…
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In The Critic this month, I write about two recent books on our relationship with work. The pandemic moment has led people to reassess their relationsh…
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I did not buy a puppy during the pandemic. But I might be looking to get a dog in the future so I started browsing some websites. And the first thing t…
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Hello everyone, and welcome new readers. I’ve finally updated the title here to “Notes from the Field”, which was always my blog title, so has some con…
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I mentioned on Twitter at the weekend the inclusion of an urban legend in the form about changing school names in San Francisco. And these sort of urba…
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I posted my thoughts on cancel culture on twitter yesterday, and seemed to resonate with quite a few people.
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My review of Chris Gosden’s book on the history of magic for Reason is now online. I find the ways our ancestors looked for patterns and magic in the w…
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This month I have a piece in Spectator USA about the idea of the antiheroine. It’s a change I’ve noticed in TV and film in recent years, where for a lo…
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Dear reader, you don’t need me to tell you that in so many ways this has been a crappy year. But it’s been a time for people rethinking a lot of things…
Dec 31, 2020CommentShare
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