Today is publication day for the long-awaited PAPERBACK edition of ‘Magic in Merlin’s Realm’, my book about the political significance of magic in Britain from the Middle Ages to modern times 📚🧙‍♂️🔮 cambridge.org/gb/universityp… Cambridge University Press

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If I wrote a book about Corcyra it would not be a history but a poem. World of black cherries, sails, dust, arbutus, fishes and letters from home. . . . — Lawrence Durrell, Prospero’s Cell (1945) Corfu

Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Corn Goddess, who always arrive when I am on an island, unannounced and whose luggage has always been left at the airport: 'But we’ve brought the wine — the most important thing!' — Lawrence Durrell Costas Achillopoulos

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Rethymno, Crete 🇬🇷 📷w8asecondpls

Ah, the rolling vineyards of... Staffordshire?!

In the silences between our sentences we can hear the oranges dropping from the trees in the orchard — dull single thuds upon the mossy ground. An owl cries, and the watchdogs at the lodge grumble and shake their chains. — Lawrence Durrell Corfu

Hello. I'm Bart Simpson. In the past, I've brought you such classic films as Homer in the Shower and Homer on the Toilet. And now, I give you The Eternal Struggle...

Our forum is in peril re the Online 'Safety' Act. Sod reams of 'I was there' comment from beloved/departed #WW2 veteran friends & so much expertise-based info. Our subject is war - now deemed problematic by UK authorities, to a chilling extent. Deadly serious. #Repeal #OSA

This is going to blow your mind. If you were alive on January 1st 1189, here is all of the people alive with you at the same time.. -King Henry II -Eleanor of Aquitaine -Richard the Lionheart -future King John -William Marshal -Genghis Khan -Saladin -Guy of Lusignan -Conrad of

Do you know of anywhere in your area where there is a huge and sympathetic room, with plenty of striding space, a large worktable, a shaded lamp, a bed, and a view lunging away into the distance ⁠— costing practically nothing? ⁠— Paddy Leigh Fermor, writing to Lawrence Durrell

“Ithaca gave you the beautiful journey; without her you wouldn’t have set upon the road.” – C.P. Cavafy, “Ithaca”, translated by Daniel Mendelsohn #poetry #cavafy

In 1944, a daring SOE mission saw the successful capture of Nazi General Heinrich Kreipe. Treated as a guest at the home of a British Spymaster, he was befriended to unknowingly expose Hitler’s plans—and it worked: (🧵)

Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian This tale was cleverly re enacted at this years Chalke History Festival by the brilliant #foreignfieldhistorygroup Kyle Glover

Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian I just bought Patrick Leigh Fermor’s book on the Kreipe capture operation but hadn’t heard the story after he was taken back to Britain. Kyle Glover has a great series of tweets tracing the events when he visited Crete: x.com/kyleghistory/s…

I just bought Patrick Leigh Fermor’s book on the Kreipe capture operation but hadn’t heard the story after he was taken back to Britain. Kyle Glover has a great series of tweets tracing the events when he visited Crete: x.com/kyleghistory/s…

An elephant pole of brass-bound teak made to help minor rajahs climb into their howdahs; it splits down the middle and half the pole drops away parallel with a heartening bang — the rungs fall horizontal and up one goes. — Patrick Leigh Fermor, describing his library ladder

This dog with his ball has been a good boy for seven centuries. Worcester cathedral