Away with the tyrannical General Franco!

Some 350,000 Spanish citizens died during Spain’s calamitous civil war (1936-39) and a further 200,000 afterwards – of hunger.

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The Pied Piper of Hamelin (II)

All may not be as it seems in medieval Hameln, near Hanover in Germany.

The Pied Piper of Hamelin (I)

The town of Hameln is known in Germany and England for a dubious character who once spirited away its rats and its children.

Pause for thought: Elias Canetti

When a book’s time has come.

Pause for thought: Alberto Manguel

Every library tyrannizes the act of reading.

Pause for thought: Virginia Woolf

Take no advice and follow your own instincts.

Pause for thought: Jacques Bonnet

In the presence of riches and wretched banalities.