I wrote a short book about for Bloomsbury Music’s 331/3 series on individual artists and albums, but things didn’t work out and it’s now been published by Takahe, the small outfit in Coventry run by Steve Hodder. It was Takahe which in 2020 published Slouching Towards Big Pink – essays on Bob Dylan and The …
Monthly Archive: July 2023
Jul 04
Hottest June since 1940 – historians can’t ignore that!
According to the Met Office last month’s mean temperature of 14.9 celsius makes it the hottest June since 1940. A marked feature about weather patterns in the 1940s is the harshness of the winters across Europe, as the German Army found to its cost in Russia from late 1941. For the British it’s a postwar …
Adrian Smith, Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Southampton
