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50 International & 50 Great Britain
Jun 6, 20222 min read
MAKE DO AND MEND
31 May 2022 Dear Richard and Montserrat, 1943 Britain rationed clothes with a Ministry of Information newsreel ‘Make Do and Mend’ urged...
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50 International & 50 Great Britain
Feb 8, 20222 min read
GORDIAN KNOT
8 February 2022 Dear Richard and Montserrat, Entering Gordium, Alexander the Great found the fabled knot binding the Ox Cart to a post...
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50 International & 50 Great Britain
Aug 11, 20212 min read
THE WARRIOR ACCOUNTANT
10 August 2021 Dear Richard and Montserrat, At times of threat, we look to warriors that act under a higher code to defend the...
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50 International & 50 Great Britain
Jul 28, 20212 min read
ANYWHERE PEOPLE
28 July 2021 Dear Richard and Montserrat, The summer of 1348 brought the Black Death to Britain. It killed half of the population! The...
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50 International & 50 Great Britain
Jun 16, 20212 min read
HAVENS CRUMBLE
16 June 2021 Dear Richard and Montserrat, Originally from a 1973 meeting of finance ministers in the White House Library what is now the...
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50 International & 50 Great Britain
May 18, 20212 min read
THE FRIAR & THE KNIGHT
18 May 2021 Dear Richard and Montserrat, Not unlike the concerns of Chaucer’s characters in the Canterbury Tales the wealth of our day...
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50 International & 50 Great Britain
Apr 13, 20212 min read
NO BUCKETS AT ICE FUNERALS
Dear Richard and Montserrat, In 1780 high in the Peruvian mountains a fair-skinned boy turned a shepherd to stone. To the locals the boy...
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50 International & 50 Great Britain
Mar 17, 20212 min read
WAR BONDS & SPITFIRE CLUBS
17 March 2021 Dear Richard and Montserrat, In 1938 Churchill ordered Spitfires in volume not knowing how to pay for them! However,...
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50 International & 50 Great Britain
Feb 9, 20212 min read
FIVE EYES
9th February 2021 Dear Richard and Montserrat, Five Eyes combined to stare into the dark of Cold War espionage and nuclear threat....
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50 International & 50 Great Britain
Nov 26, 20202 min read
WALLS OF GLASS
26 November 2020 Dear Richard and Montserrat, In the England of the 1780s smuggling was a significant rural industry with many secret...
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50 International & 50 Great Britain
Sep 30, 20202 min read
POSTCARDS ON A JOURNEY
26 November 2020 Dear Richard and Montserrat, On an unfamiliar road, the driver stopped to ask for directions. A stranger approached the...
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