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Penwith West Cornwall (and local history)

A less well-known Cornish Garden

https://cornwallincolours.blog/2025/07/21/bonython-estate-gardens-in-july/#like-31265

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Poetry

In their art

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Penwith Poetry West Cornwall (and local history)

A strange day at the Penzance Lit Fest

 

Retreat everywhere! Practical June

Will look at blackouts.

Learn from the opportunity-

You will make material poems

Regularly and utterly fascinating.

 

Under deep metal with Philip

Discover magical humans

Trace the dazzling and dark consequences

In various homeland hotspots as did

Parson, Goethe, Blake and Marie Curie

 

Cornish ghost landscapes erupt at Falmouth-

Talk about inspiration!

Convince Cornish writers to paint!

Short ghosts here costing £6

 

Penzance legends at the Pixel

Linda has books and local visitors and time lords,

Including Sir Humphry Davy

Pirates and St Anthony.

 

Unlock the power of the unconscious

With Jenny.

Write a regular modern mass app

Experience and chance a random walk non-fiction encounter.

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Art and Photographic History

More about William Morris at Kelmscott

https://wordscene.wordpress.com/2025/07/20/exploring-the-world-of-william-morris-kelmscott-manor-2/

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Uncategorized

“No Victors Here”: Alexander Voloshin in the Hollywood Bowl

I find it hard to remain cheerful this summer, though I have one or two good reasons to celebrate—not counting the two named Nina and Charlie. One development worth toasting is the appearance of Vernon Duke’s Passport to Paris and Los Angeles Poems, a book packed with such gaiety that I can hardly keep from […]

“No Victors Here”: Alexander Voloshin in the Hollywood Bowl
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Art and Photographic History Penwith St Ives West Cornwall (and local history)

Island Road School Talk – St Ives Archive

https://stivesarchive.org/2025/07/18/island-road-school-talk/

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Classics politics

Adam Smith (1723–1790) – Architect of Economic English

Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations didn’t just shape economics—it transformed English. His vivid terms like invisible hand, laissez-faire, and division of labor embedded Enlightenment ideas into everyday speech. Today, his legacy lives on not just in markets, but in the very language we use to describe them.

Adam Smith (1723–1790) – Architect of Economic English
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German Matters Literature

Having your cake and….?

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Art and Photographic History German Matters

Lovis Corinth by Himself

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Art and Photographic History French

The 14th of July