as an exploratory journey through that old party question: if you could have a drink with anyone in history, who would it be? History is full of people you’d love to have a drink with. Let’s meet a few.
as an exploratory journey through that old party question: if you could have a drink with anyone in history, who would it be? History is full of people you’d love to have a drink with. Let’s meet a few.
Have a drink with: Ian Fleming Shaken, not stirred. Ask him: hey, can we bring drinks into the library? In 1963 a major exhibition of rare books and printed treasures called Printing and the Mind of Man went up at the Eleventh International Printing Machinery and Allied Trades Exhibition (IPEX) in London, displaying some four hundred…
Have a drink with: The Gordon Rioters Angry Protestant mob, muse to Charles Dickens Ask them about: Looting, pillaging, using the word “popery” without laughing. (Try it: popery popery popery.) “If they touch my work that’s a part of so many laws, what becomes of the laws in general, what becomes of the religion, what…
