HTTP/2 301 server: nginx date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:15:53 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 location: https://moncurdg.com/comments/feed/ strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:15:53 GMT etag: "0994b8c9d43bb37599e5edffb32da7d4" x-redirect-by: WordPress x-ac: 3.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=785.0 HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:15:53 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 vary: Accept-Encoding x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:15:53 GMT etag: W/"0994b8c9d43bb37599e5edffb32da7d4" content-encoding: gzip x-ac: 2.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=349.0 https://moncurdg.com Just another WordPress.com site Fri, 09 Jan 2026 04:21:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.com/ https://moncurdg.com/2025/07/24/a-conundrum-from-the-first-world-war/#comment-28169 Fri, 09 Jan 2026 04:21:06 +0000 https://moncurdg.com/?p=3300#comment-28169 […] (As an aside I tried researching some of these raids using Welsh Newspapers Online. It’s quite clear from the reports that the British authorities heavily censored the reports of zeppelin raids, where they occurred and what damage there had been, perhaps for fear of spreading panic among the civilian population, or simply trying to curb war weariness. […]

]]> https://moncurdg.com/2025/12/21/snow-on-their-boots/#comment-28168 Fri, 09 Jan 2026 04:21:04 +0000 https://moncurdg.com/?p=3508#comment-28168 […] Over the last few days I’ve been reading Ursula Bloom’s memoir of her life as a young woman during the first world war. […]

]]> https://moncurdg.com/2025/06/07/the-society-of-friends-of-russian-freedom/#comment-28167 Tue, 30 Dec 2025 04:25:46 +0000 https://moncurdg.com/?p=3274#comment-28167 […] that I’ve been researching Sergei Stepaniak, Constance Garnett and the Friends of Russian Freedom, there is no way that this would not pique my […]

]]> https://moncurdg.com/2025/06/09/sergei-stepniak/#comment-28166 Tue, 30 Dec 2025 04:25:43 +0000 https://moncurdg.com/?p=3282#comment-28166 […] that I’ve been researching Sergei Stepaniak, Constance Garnett and the Friends of Russian Freedom, there is no way that this would not pique my […]

]]> https://moncurdg.com/2025/07/24/a-conundrum-from-the-first-world-war/#comment-28165 Sun, 21 Dec 2025 04:29:49 +0000 https://moncurdg.com/?p=3300#comment-28165 […] later wrote an autobiography describing life on the home front in world war one, rationing, zeppelin raids and the general atmosphere of paranoia and […]

]]> https://moncurdg.com/2025/06/07/the-society-of-friends-of-russian-freedom/#comment-28164 Sun, 30 Nov 2025 01:39:24 +0000 https://moncurdg.com/?p=3274#comment-28164 […] There were of course other sorts of dissidents, ones like Sergei Stepniak, who was a gentleman, who spoke nicely about literature and art, quite unlike these strange slightly frightening men with strong accents and and their talk of violence and revolution, and who attracted groups of supporters such as the Friends of Russian Freedom. […]

]]> https://moncurdg.com/2025/01/01/anarchists-revolutionaries-and-female-spies/#comment-28163 Sun, 30 Nov 2025 01:06:39 +0000 https://moncurdg.com/?p=3010#comment-28163 […] the Okhrana, the Tsar’s secret police, were in England as well, sometimes co-operating with the British police, sometimes carrying out what the KGB later called […]

]]> https://moncurdg.com/2015/11/16/the-beechworth-gun/#comment-28162 Wed, 26 Nov 2025 01:33:55 +0000 https://moncurdg.com/?p=723#comment-28162 […] Over ten years ago, before we moved to Beechworth, I became fascinated by the provenance of the old Krupp 75 mm gun outside the RSL. […]

]]> https://moncurdg.com/2024/11/30/technology-and-me-in-2024/#comment-28161 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:22:19 +0000 https://moncurdg.com/?p=2971#comment-28161 […] back at last year’s post, I can see there’s been a few changes but perhaps not as many as you might […]

]]> https://moncurdg.com/2021/01/12/inglistoun-inglistoun-wherefore-art-thou-inglistoun/#comment-28160 Wed, 12 Nov 2025 04:04:49 +0000 https://moncurdg.wordpress.com/?p=1997#comment-28160 […] my great^n grandfather was born in 1814, the parish clerk recording the event used a long s. Jane Austen also used a long s on occasions in her writing, so we could plausibly argue that when […]

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