Local writer and historian Emily Turner was inspired by the recent Edward King exhibition at Portsmouth City Museum and is running her own research project exploring the creativity of patients in mental health institutions. She [… read more ]
John Oke Bartlett continues his tale from Ted, a regular at The Rocket, Cosham, previously the Railway Hotel. If you missed Part I of Ted’s tale, catch up here. Time for a pint. Lager or [… read more ]
John Oke Bartlett continues his storytelling of Portsmouth’s pub history and the larger than life characters he has met along the way. In the third of the series, we meet Ted, a regular at the [… read more ]
By John Pearson On used scraps of board, paint brush strokes made their mark – the silent aftermath of a city scarred, blitzed, battered and burned; rubble piled high in streets, glass splinters, heaps [… read more ]
Editor and linguist Simon Sykes recounts a thrilling mystery bringing together World War II code-breaking, French poetry and, of course, Portsmouth. Some time ago, I was living in the outlands of southwest France. It was [… read more ]
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