The (unnamed) writer at A London Inheritance had a post this week about taking a walk in London. She calls pat of the “Rocque Ring,” and it forms the boundary of London in 1745. It begins at the Blue Coat School, located on Caxton Lane at the corner of Buckingham Gate, goes past Buckingham Palace, and then moves up Constitution Hill to Hyde Park. Our hotel – the one we’ve stayed at six times since 2013, is a short block from the Blue Coat School. This was “our neighborhood,” close to Victoria, near the Wellington Guards Barracks, and two blocks from the Palace and St. James’s Park. We could, and often did, walk to Piccadilly, Trafalgar Square, and even Westminster Abbey. And we could, and often did, run into all the protests that are a daily occurrence in London.
Englishman Henry Oliver, who writes about books, found himself in the Middle South of the United States – Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama. And he discovered that there’s nothing boring in America.
More Good Reads
America 250
Freedom Around the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution by Sarah Persall – review by Timothy Symington at Journal of the American Revolution.
Passing Revolutionary History on to the Next Generation – Jim Sanderlin at Real Clear History.
The Revolutionary Battle of Valcour Island – Dan McLaughlin at National Review.
Writing and Literature
Belloc vs. Tolkien: Two Views of Anglo-Saxon England – Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative.
You Are Formed by What You Listen To; You Are Formed by What You Read – E.J. Larow at After Progress.
British Stuff
Rules, London’s Oldest Restaurant, Given to the National Trust – Jonathan Thomas at Londontopia.
Poetry
“Autumn,” poem by John Clare – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
The River & The Sea – poem by Rohini Sunderam at Society of Classical Poets.
Sweet Music – poem by Cody Ilardo at Power & Glory.
“Caedmon’s Hymn,” poem by Caedmon – Adam Robets at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Life and Culture
A Farmer’s Alphabet – Brian Miller at Notes from an East Tennessee Farmer.
His Love – Skye Peterson
Painting: An Old Man Reading, oil on panel (1729) by Willem van Mieris (1662-1747).
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