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Conan Doyle’s old house, Undershaw, to be redeveloped

Posted on August 2, 2010 by Nigel Smith

Undershaw is the house Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lived in, having had it built in 1897 as his wife needed to move into the country for health reasons. He lived there for ten years, and wrote while there, among other … Continue reading →

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Nobby not acceptable but Dick and Fanny fine: Enid Blyton for the Twenty-first Century

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Nigel Smith

In Saturday’s Guardian there was an article about Enid Blyton’s Famous Five books getting a ‘makeover’ – changing some of the terminology to fit modern times, for example ‘mother’ to ‘mum’, ‘mercy me’ to ‘oh no’, and ‘fellow’ to ‘old … Continue reading →

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