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Robert Morrison, The Conversation

How to make merry amidst so much misery: Timeless advice from the 1830s

The rich have ‘too much Christmas all year round’, wrote English writer Leigh Hunt.

Robert Morrison, The Conversation
· Dec 23, 2019 · 09:30 pm
80 years before Bram Stoker, it was a young English doctor who introduced us to the modern vampire

Until John Polidori’s novel, ‘The Vampyre’, the creatures had been imagined as shaggy, fetid and bestial.

Robert Morrison, The Conversation
· Apr 11, 2019 · 05:30 pm
The unheralded American who contributed to the magic of The Beatles’ Rooftop Concert 50 years ago

Planned only a few days earlier, the January 30, 1969 rooftop concert by the Beatles was their last.

Robert Morrison, The Conversation
· Jan 30, 2019 · 08:30 pm