Category Archives: Burned manuscripts

The real Lowry lost manuscript

Posted on September 29, 2010 by

Malcolm Lowry was born in 1909, in New Brighton, a small town for which I have a soft spot, just “over the water”, as we say, from Liverpool. He was a restless spirit who wanted to write, and did not … Continue reading →

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From Anatomy to Atlantis

Posted on May 14, 2010 by

Olaus Rudbeck (also known as Olof Rudbeck the Elder) was a frighteningly brilliant philosopher, scientist, anatomist, inventor, and professor of medicine at Uppsala University. As an enthusiastic teenage student, he was one of the first to discover the form and … Continue reading →

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The French Revolution

Posted on April 30, 2010 by

In 1834, the philosopher John Stuart Mill discovered that although he had signed a contract with his publisher to produce a general history of the French revolution, he was actually too busy with other commitments to come up with the … Continue reading →

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