Sunday, November 18, 2007
Fascinating people
Even a casual observer of history knows that Winston Churchill was interesting. But it takes alert bloggers, in this case blog friend Laura, to find and cite people like Elizabeth Nel who was Churchill's last wartime secretary. A Canadian, Nel improbably worked with and was devoted to Churchill. She wrote Winston Churchill by his personal secretary, which was published in 1958 and revised this past year and is being republished this month. She is also the subject of this interesting obituary in Friday's U.K. Telegraph.
Learning about otherwise unknown but utterly important and vital people is exactly why there are many devotees of well-researched and well-written obituaries in places like the Guardian, the U.K. Times, the N.Y. Times and others. They present a fascinating and vivid history of the world, one person and one event at a time. Such as Elizabeth Nel.
Learning about otherwise unknown but utterly important and vital people is exactly why there are many devotees of well-researched and well-written obituaries in places like the Guardian, the U.K. Times, the N.Y. Times and others. They present a fascinating and vivid history of the world, one person and one event at a time. Such as Elizabeth Nel.
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