Prose and Passion

Digging into the ancestry of Anna Katharina Andrae (1742-1816) from Gebroth, we've established that her presumed great-great-grandfathe...

I'm organising a Cowley Orchestra Feature Evening for next week where we will focus on: Fanny Hensel (Mendelssohn): Overture in C m...

In the Weiß Chronicles , Johann Gottlieb Weiß (1736-1800) the mayor of Pferdsfeld (see generation 8) marries Anna Katharina Andrae (1742-1...

Many infectious diseases have managed to establish themselves in human populations after the advent of agriculture, when dense settlements e...

I recently revisited the family history around the Weiß chronicles , which I hadn't touched in a long time, and discovered quite a few n...

Pirate Luthier update After crack repair, successful reassembly and setting up of the quite lovely violin number 30 , I turned to some le...

After revisiting the Weiß Chronicles including the biography of Johannes Weiß, the vicar of Eckweiler from 1740 to 1772, I had another look...

... rescued from my ancient website which is now offline. Looking at this again after around 15 years, I've discovered a few things to ...

There are animal species, often apex predators, which many humans seem to worship for their fierce power, such as lions, cheetahs and eagles...

Some thoughts on: A world gone mad The wartime diaries of Astrid Lindgren book (2016) and film (2025) I started reading the English ed...

As a chemist, I have of course used quantum mechanics in various ways and learned the essential textbook equations, but like everybody else ...

Some thoughts on Mein Opa, sein Widerstand gegen die Nazis und ich (My Grandfather, His Resistance Against the Nazis and I) Nora Hespers ...