Classics in Short No.70 – Just William

Classics in Short No.70  – Just  William

Brian Alderson

‘I jus’ won’t do it. I jus’ won’t go to any ole weddin’... an’ I jus’ won’t be made look ridiclus...’ So you can see why he’s JUST – WILLIAM

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Classics in Short No. 69 - Picture History of Britain

Classics in Short No. 69 - Picture  History of Britain

Brian Alderson

A long way after expansive Mr Dickens, we arrive at…

Funny stuff – history.

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Classics in Short No.68 - Pippi Longstocking

Classics in Short No.68 - Pippi  Longstocking

Sixty-odd years of monkeying about and now there’s a new dress for…

Pippi Longstocking

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Classics in Short No.67 - A Traveller in Time

Classics in Short No.67 - A Traveller in Time

‘That Brave Company of Shadows’ surrounding A Traveller in Time

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Classics in Short No.66 - The Tailor of Gloucester

Classics in Short No.66 - The Tailor of Gloucester

Brian Alderson

Carols, Rhymes, and Christmas Bells for…

The Tailor of Gloucester

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Classics in Short No 65 - Kidnapped and Catriona

Classics in Short No 65 - Kidnapped and Catriona

Lang Scots miles and a baubeejoe in an alley: the adventures of David Balfour in Kidnapped and Catriona

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Classics in Short No. 64 - Aesop’s Fables

Classics in Short No. 64 - Aesop’s Fables

Wyllyam Caxton meets Brian Wildsmith somewhere amongst Aesop’s Fables

Fairy tales,

subject of our previous backpage endeavour, may well be among the most ancient forms of discourse. But we know nothing of what they originally had to say or how they said it and the great canonic tales of the West came very late in their transmission to print.

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Classics in Short No. 63 - English Fairy Tales

Classics in Short No. 63 - English Fairy Tales

Trim Craft on the Ocean of Story in...

English Fairy Tales

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Classics in Short No. 62 - The Battle of Bubble and Squeak

Classics in Short  No. 62 - The Battle of Bubble and Squeak

Raising the Standard for

( The Battle of Bubble and Squeak )

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Classics in Short No. 61- Old Peter’s Russian Tales

Classics in Short No. 61- Old Peter’s Russian Tales

‘I am translating fairy stories which in the time of Armageddon I suppose nobody will even read.’ – A pessimistic forecast by the author of...

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