Posts by Charles Nevin
Cease that scrolling, and discover bears and bisons, putti, hunky punks and a certain Swede:
charlesnevin.substack.com/p/bears-biso...
Relax into the past with Eliza Doolittle, Queen Victoria and Lord Clark of Civilisation:
charlesnevin.substack.com/p/freddy-eli...
Spend your Sunday relaxing with Gene Pitney, Rabelais, Kafka, Marx, Bootsie, Snudge and Frosty:
charlesnevin.substack.com/p/tulsa-marx...
More things you didn't need to know then and don't need to know now, including the Emperor Haile Selassie's suiting and Graham Greene's hidden assets:
charlesnevin.substack.com/p/gods-nippl...
The latest unmissable edition of my miscellany of nostalgia and other entertaining irrelevancies...
charlesnevin.substack.com/p/piano-poet...
Miscellany time again, with Pushkin, McGonagall, Sartre, Sinatra and Marlowe (P):
charlesnevin.substack.com/p/duelling-d...
Important lessons from George Formby, the Bishop of Rochester, and Lord Curzon:
charlesnevin.substack.com/p/puddings-p...
More deep dives into the shallow end of the Past: to be taken daily or binged (!):
charlesnevin.substack.com/p/voltaire-s...
Top weekend winding-down material: Marx, Engels and Churchill hunting, plus America's puzzling origin story...
charlesnevin.substack.com/p/hunting-co...
Mistakes, puns and Ernst Lubitsch: my miscellany for the next few days...
charlesnevin.substack.com/p/graun-groa...
Read the one about the scientist, the preacher, the structuralist and the crab:
charlesnevin.substack.com/p/freeman-we...
Come back to the past: Clarence, that Malmsey, and the truth about the kangaroo:
charlesnevin.substack.com/p/clarence-k...
Have a read about the world's least successful newspaper and Shakespeare's way with a death...
charlesnevin.substack.com/p/adlai-stoc...
Divert away from today with my miscellany of past wit, wisdom and whimsical curiosities...
charlesnevin.substack.com/p/saxon-jink...
Some trivia and diversion to cleanse the intellectual palate:
charlesnevin.substack.com/p/lassie-osc...
Come away from all this and into my miscellany of past wit, wisdom and whimsical curiosities:
charlesnevin.substack.com/p/firsts-las...
Unlikely for all you endlessly imaginative types, I know, but one of this week's Miscellany entries is advice if you're now bored with the Xmas break: get in touch with the other half: charlesnevin.substack.com/p/jane-auste...
Also available in daily takes at www.charlesnevin.co.uk/blog
Christmas? Calm down with my soothing serving of past wit, wisdom and whimsical curiosities: charlesnevin.substack.com/p/cilla-crac...
Short stories decade by decade through the 20th Century, featuring such as Edward VII, Butch Cassidy and Margaret Thatcher's bloomers...
Getting desperate? William Boyd recommends my short story collection. Also very useful for pressing duck and occupying uncles.
Rush now to my weekly wonder of past wit, wisdom and whimsical curiosities:
charlesnevin.substack.com/p/hot-party-...
Remarkable how the look between the man and the woman is absolutely unmistakeable...