Fragments of a blog
Fragments of a blog
Back in September 2018, Steve Bannon was interviewed by Zanny Minton Beddoes at the Open Future Festival in New York. The event was organized by The Economist. At that moment, the interviewer had served as its editor-in-chief for three and…
In 1967, the present editor-in-chief of The Economist was born into an old family of Salopian landowners. On July 7, 1866, – a hundred and one years earlier – The Economist ran an article titled Influence of Entails on Agriculture.…
Here’s a simplified timeline related to the previous two posts. William Beddoes (1710-1774) bought Cheney Longville in Shropshire in 1745. His first son Thomas (1746-1822) married Priscilla Minton (1754-1819), the daughter of the manor holder in Minton, Church Stretton, Shropshire.…
William Francis Minton Beddoes (1858-1928) – whose real estate passed to his nephew, Zanny Minton Beddoes’s grandfather – was listed in the Domesday Book of 1873 as the owner of 769 acres of land yielding a gross rental income of…
Poem L in Housman’s A Shropshire Lad begins: Clunton and Clunbury,Clungunford and Clun,Are the quietest placesUnder the sun. In Clun, you can admire the ruins of a 13-th century castle. From Clunbury, there’s only a six-mile, fifteen-minute drive to the…