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Apparently there is no memorial to the estimated 228,000 victims of Spanish Influenza in the UK. Across the world a handful of memorials and plaques exist, very few of them contemporaneous. It seems societies just wanted to put the ghastliness behind them, or focussed on remembering the victims...

Written in the midst of the 1918/19 Spanish Flu pandemic, eerily resonant today so I thought I'd share it. If this is the wrong forum, or otherwise inappropriate, please delete :-) It's out of copyright. Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things...

I've had conflicting information about engineering works between Edinburgh and Glasgow on Sunday 3rd June. A booking clerk at Waterloo told me there was a bus replacement service which would take 3 hours, but Scotrail and CrossCountry websites show normal services on that day National Rail...

Hi, Landing at Gatwick with Mrs. Farang after a holiday I realised I didn't have our 2Together railcard so had to buy full price tickets home from the ticket machine. What are the chances of a refund of the extra cost? Most of the journey home was on Southern, with a short stretch on SWR.