Charles Nevin

All Singing & Dancing In which we experience knobbly knees and heartbreak

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Big Geoff, No News & The Joy Riders More from the Other Country...

Time to travel back to 1397, 1651 and 1930...

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Bears, Bisons & Bologna Further despatches from the old world

Cease that scrolling, and discover bears and bisons, putti, hunky punks and a certain Swede:

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Freddy, Eliza & Furniture Edwardian larks, railway dreams, and a cad

Relax into the past with Eliza Doolittle, Queen Victoria and Lord Clark of Civilisation:

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Maggie, Tom & Wakefulness On the oddities of Thatcher, Da Vinci, Brontē, and Edison

How can Dickens, Brontē, Edison and Einstein help you?

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Tulsa, Marxists & Snudge Another retreat to the marginalia of the past

Spend your Sunday relaxing with Gene Pitney, Rabelais, Kafka, Marx, Bootsie, Snudge and Frosty:

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Gods, Nipples & Cooeee! More siftings of things past from home and abroad

More things you didn't need to know then and don't need to know now, including the Emperor Haile Selassie's suiting and Graham Greene's hidden assets:

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Piano, Poetry & Flat Jack More varying reports from back then

The latest unmissable edition of my miscellany of nostalgia and other entertaining irrelevancies...

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Duelling, Doggerel & Gumshoe More vital if often useless information from before

Miscellany time again, with Pushkin, McGonagall, Sartre, Sinatra and Marlowe (P):

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Puddings, Prelates & Trousers More escapism masquerading as information

Important lessons from George Formby, the Bishop of Rochester, and Lord Curzon:

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Voltaire, Smudger & Joyce A varied menu of miscellaneous matters now passed

More deep dives into the shallow end of the Past: to be taken daily or binged (!):

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Hunting Communists, Mad Jack & Amerigo Further odd ends, digressions and diversions

Top weekend winding-down material: Marx, Engels and Churchill hunting, plus America's puzzling origin story...

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Graun, Groan & Benny Escape to mistakes, bad puns and dictator baiting

Mistakes, puns and Ernst Lubitsch: my miscellany for the next few days...

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Freeman, Wesley & Niven Further meanderings through the interesting Past

Read the one about the scientist, the preacher, the structuralist and the crab:

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Quotes, Sects & Spike More exclusive pondering opportunities

More off-piste ponderings for the differently minded:

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Clarence, kangaroos & pawns More subjects for odd idle pondering over the next few days

Come back to the past: Clarence, that Malmsey, and the truth about the kangaroo:
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Love, Quirks and Quarks Solace from the Past for the next few days

Some relief from the Past...

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Trains and trays and Cellini More vintage escapism for those battered by the Present...

Escape from all this present daftness to the past...
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Adlai, Stockport & Shakers More times of then...

Have a read about the world's least successful newspaper and Shakespeare's way with a death...

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Emperors, Burgers and Old Cucumbers More bulletins and curiosities from the past

Take a break from all this and come back to the past:
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Chic times, old stories, and poor January 29

Stop your scrolling and come with me back to the past:
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Saxon jinks, Lenin's Ear & Spirits The next few days long ago and far away

Divert away from today with my miscellany of past wit, wisdom and whimsical curiosities...

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Tum-Tum, Dentures & Petruchio Escape reality with my odd miscellany

Come away to an older world:
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Lassie, Oscar and Chopin My Miscellany for the coming days...

Some trivia and diversion to cleanse the intellectual palate:
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Firsts, Lasts & Twelfth Fascinating facts and finding on the last seven days

Come away from all this and into my miscellany of past wit, wisdom and whimsical curiosities:

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Dickens, Chaplin and, er, Nevin A weekly delivery of my wonderful miscellany of past wit, wisdom and curiosities

Unlikely for all you endlessly imaginative types, I know, but one of this week's Miscellany entries is advice if you're now bored with the Xmas break: get in touch with the other half: charlesnevin.substack.com/p/jane-auste...
Also available in daily takes at www.charlesnevin.co.uk/blog

Cilla, Crackers and some short things This week's dip into my miscellany of wit, wisdom and whimsical curiosities

Christmas? Calm down with my soothing serving of past wit, wisdom and whimsical curiosities: charlesnevin.substack.com/p/cilla-crac...

Short stories decade by decade through the 20th Century, featuring such as Edward VII, Butch Cassidy and Margaret Thatcher's bloomers...

Getting desperate? William Boyd recommends my short story collection. Also very useful for pressing duck and occupying uncles.

Hot party tips, James II and a camel This week's dip into my marvellous miscellany of past wit, wisdom and whimsical curiosities

Rush now to my weekly wonder of past wit, wisdom and whimsical curiosities:

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Remarkable how the look between the man and the woman is absolutely unmistakeable...