I [edit] agree he must mean 1920 not 1946. One thing they did do in WW2 was try hard to do something about childhood nutrition, with some success. (View Post)

Just reading an interesting paper on 'Money in Jane Austen' by a chap called Robert Hume (Review of ENglish Studies, n.s., 64, 289-310 on the grim realities behind the likes of Pride and Pr… (View Post)

And the Indians*, quite a few Africans, plenty of Canadians and Anzacs. And so on. *As India was then - including modern Pakistan and Bangladesh. (View Post)

And St Pancras, to name just another off the top of my head. (View Post)

Happy memories of stout and smoked salmon sandwiches in Dublin. (View Post)