Month: May 2025
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A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was born Antonia Susan Drabble, the eldest child of a barrister (later a QC) and an academic. One of her younger siblings was the novelist Margaret Drabble (b. 1939). Byatt was born in Sheffield, but the family moved to York to avoid German bombing during WW2. Shortly after graduating from the University…
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We’ve arrived at the fifth in this series of twelve monthly posts dedicated to exploring music of particular personal significance. Each post is connected, however tenuously, to its predecessor and I’m hoping to end in December where I began last January. The series began with Ya Jean by Madilu System, before moving on to Autorail…


