01/02/2013 – Jeremy Nicholas. Founded 1947

THIS MONTH’S PARODY (February) Eton Boating Song

Verse ParodiesBy Jeremy 01/02/2013 1 Comment

The words of the Eton Boating Song were written by a master, William Johnson, at Torquay over Christmas 1862 for the school’s famous Fourth of June celebrations in 1863, an annual holiday with a Parade of Boats marking the birthday of King George 111, Eton’s greatest patron. The music was composed by Old Etonian Captain Algernon Drummond…

New Publications

Short ThoughtsBy Jeremy 01/02/2013 Leave a comment

vICTORIAN CURIOSITIES was a book I adapted in 1995 from Everybody’s Scrapbook of Curious Facts – A Book for Odd Moments, compiled by Don Lemon in 1890. It’s a sort of Not Many People Know That from a century earlier. My original Little, Brown edition has been out of print for some years, but now a…