His third marriage was in 1974, to Mrs Mildred Allewyn Spong (née Bensusan).

It is still the custom to sew the body into a hammock or other piece of canvass with heavy weights, formerly several cannonballs, at the feet to compensate the tendency of a partly decomposed body (as would be the case in the tropics) to float. To satisfy superstition, or to ensure that the body is actually dead, the last stitch of the sailmaker's needle is through the nose.

I like the global warming angle and the admonition against sitting down

A week spent eating Edwardian style

I never knew that ‘Mount Pleasant’, near Gray’s Inn, was actually a bitterly ironic name for a huge man-made heap of the most nauseous offal and ordure. It is now, of course, home to the Guardian newspaper.

monster 600kW mediumwave transmitter used for british black propaganda during wwii

full etext of british master propagandist's book

surprisingly informative and levelheaded register article about the implications of Windows 2k on british destroyers and nuclear subs

some great prose in here. "Lewinsky's pillowy embrace" etc.

"The Pakistani side refused to come out of their dressing room after tea in protest at the umpires' ruling." I love cricket.

nice adam gopnik capsule bio of disraeli

I'm a sucker for travel time and accessibility maps and these are well done. It's symptomatic that none of the data you would need to make these yourself is available, however

a rather amazing british naval hero. Memoirs sound intriguing

good brief history of the falkland islands, from a pro-british perspective

stupid Falklands posturing from the UK tory party

fire all of them into the sun