The Times take on #DeadInTheWater, the new #FrankMerlin detective thriller and a Times Crime Club pick of the week. #newcrimefiction #WW2 @midaspr ⁦Headline Accent⁩ ⁦Crime Cymru⁩ ⁦The Crime Writers’ Association⁩

Marion Pritchard, a Dutch-American, saved around 150 Jews during WW2, mostly children, through the Dutch resistance. Her actions included hiding families, confronting Nazis, and even killing a collaborator to protect Jews. She later worked as a psychoanalyst in America.

My dream library would absolutely feature this ingenious Victorian ‘book station’. Just needs a matching footstool

Elegance, opera and the charm of picnicking in evening gowns. A picturesque escape to the Sussex countryside at Glyndebourne in the 1960s.

Westminster Hall and Abbey. c.1819. Robert Havell.

So farewell, Tony Soper. Said quietly & insistently, while observing an avocet or badger. He seemed Spock-like to me as a child - calm, wise, quizzical. TV had a few like him then - public intellectuals & experts who spoke only to children, and always as equals. I miss them.

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Sunset on the Prairies. Mid to late 19th century. Albert Bierstadt.

International Exposition, Paris. 1937. Jean Carlu.

Just uploaded🚨another YouTube exclusive on General Wittgenstein of the Russian army. Special guest Jimmy Chen of Napoleonic Impressions joins the show to discuss this “Savior of St. Petersburg” in this 🔗: youtu.be/kc3Gnt5fJ9s?si… #napoleon #wittgenstein

Bill Evans - Someday My Prince Will Come It’s always a good idea to listen to Bill Evans…

19 September 1661 From thence (Cambridge) to our horses, and with my wife went and rode through Sturbridge but the fair was almost done. So we did not ’light there at all, but went back to Cambridge, and there at the Beare we had some herrings, we and my brother, and after

A traditional seaside holiday in England. Rollerskating, little boats and pedal cars, and watching a Punch and Judy show. A perfect summer.

The City from Bankside. 1820. Thomas Miles Richardson.

China. Brilliant thread.

It’s #BookFriday again! John Nichol ✈ Chris Lloyd

A selection of the wonderful sweeping landscapes of the American West by the German American painter Albert Bierstadt (1830- 1902).