History of Europe

Mancando means dying away. It is one of the many Italian musical terms my guitar teacher hands me to learn off as the news breaks of the Notre Dame cathedral; as it was mancando. The pictures displayed it in blazing rapture. I mentioned it,…

As you’re pondering your Christmas presents, hazily watching TV in the fug of post-prandial bliss, or planning for New Year's Eve … spare a thought for the city across the sea, London, exactly 75 years ago. For December 1940 saw its…