Just 63 pages into Reginald Hine's 'The History of Hitchin', and I've already seen recorded the following names for Hitchin: Hiche, Hicche, Hitchche, Hycchyn, Hecchen, Hichyn, Hicchyn.
The book was written many years before our visit to Truro in September 2014, so perhaps we can forgive Truro for the 'Hitchen' error on their souvenir scarf!
Lockdown Reading
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22nd May 1840
Thomas Carlyle gave a lecture in his series 'Hero Worship'. On Friday 22nd May 1840 his subject was 'The Hero as King'. A small snippet:
'You have put the too Unable Man at the head of affairs! The too ignoble, unvaliant,fatuous man. You have forgotten that there is any rule, or natural necessity whatever, of putting the Able Man there'.
Thomas Carlyle gave a lecture in his series 'Hero Worship'. On Friday 22nd May 1840 his subject was 'The Hero as King'. A small snippet:
'You have put the too Unable Man at the head of affairs! The too ignoble, unvaliant,fatuous man. You have forgotten that there is any rule, or natural necessity whatever, of putting the Able Man there'.
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Can't think why, but I've just finished reading The Prince by 'Old Nic' Machiavelli. First published in the sixteenth century, it describes the art of political control and leadership; much of it echoes modern day manipulation by governments worldwide.
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I've finally got round to buying the Farther Corner by Harry Pearson, last year's follow up to the classic 1990s Far Corner about north east football. I'm only a few pages in and I've already laughed aloud twice which is quite a feat in the current climate.
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Good to see Hitchin get a mention in the above book .. (attached).. strangely thats thr second use of the word 'gubbed' I've seen today having never heard the word before
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Fact you might not know: Brian Smith, who Roy mentioned in last week's bulletin as having recently passed away, scored the Hitchin goal in the aforementioned game.....
"We should laugh more". Kate Deller, April 2022.
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Reading on-line Thomas Hughes's 'Memoir of a brother', an intimate portrait of George Edward Hughes of Offley Place, who was a member of the Hitchin Football Club and the Hitchin Cricket Club until his early death at the age of just 50 in 1872.