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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...
50 International & 50 Great Britain
Jun 6, 20222 min read
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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...
50 International & 50 Great Britain
Feb 8, 20222 min read
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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...
50 International & 50 Great Britain
Aug 11, 20212 min read
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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...
50 International & 50 Great Britain
Jul 28, 20212 min read
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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...
50 International & 50 Great Britain
Jun 16, 20212 min read
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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...
50 International & 50 Great Britain
May 18, 20212 min read
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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...
50 International & 50 Great Britain
Apr 13, 20212 min read
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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,...
50 International & 50 Great Britain
Mar 17, 20212 min read
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FIVE EYES
9th February 2021 Dear Richard and Montserrat, Five Eyes combined to stare into the dark of Cold War espionage and nuclear threat....
50 International & 50 Great Britain
Feb 9, 20212 min read
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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...
50 International & 50 Great Britain
Nov 26, 20202 min read
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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...
50 International & 50 Great Britain
Sep 30, 20202 min read
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