The Dusty Bookcase

Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen departed this mortal coil 125 year ago today, rising a metre then stepping aside at his home in Hindhead, Ha...

Quietly My Captain Waits Evelyn Eaton New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [c. 1943] 355 pages I first learned of Louise de Freneuse last autumn ...

A plaque dedicated to the congregants of St Matthew's Anglican Church  who fell during the Great War. Henry Hutton Scott (second column,...

The latter half of October was spent on a long road trip through Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Anyès and I travelled over four thou...

Ah, August, month of my birth. I've always found it too hot and too humid – rarely more so than this year. In "The Passing of Père ...

Having praised Quebec City and its  plaques bleu on Wednesday , I now condemn. And with good reason.  As one may divine, the above – 755, ru...

In the early days of the Dusty Bookcase – more than twelve years ago!  –   I heaped praise  upon London's blue plaques, singling out fav...