Non-Boring History

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Recovery 1.5: Topsy Turvy

Recovery 1.5: Topsy Turvy

Life Imitates Art imitates Life? The Gilbert and Sullivan World of the Indigenous Uprising, and Annette after an unsettling week

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You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: Victorian Satire

I hope you’re enjoying Recovery! More surprises to come, especially for Nonnies (paying annual and monthly subscribers). Man, this project took a long time, but worth it. This may be the best story ever at NBH, and I so want to see Roger Hutchinson, the author of Martyrs, get book sales and maybe even a movie out of it. So if you haven't read Part 1 yet, please start here to avoid massive spoilers: 😀

Recovery (1)

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September 17, 2024
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Most of my headings on Recovery are by W.S. Gilbert, the lyric-writing half of the pioneering Victorian light opera operetta musical-writing team of Sir Arthur Gilbert and W. S. Sullivan. If you’re already a fan of theirs, forgive me. If you’re not, then it’s my pleasure to introduce you to the guys.

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