A sort of Index to Lost on Time history posts:
For chess history in an earlier incarnation see here.
2016
8 April The Baby and The Bike - An addition to the story of Edwardian player E.M.Jellie (begun here, and continued here).
6 May et seq. A seven part series on Louisa Matilda Fagan, maybe the strongest female player in late Victorian England: including her chess, her family, and her politics - 1. Waltzing Matilda; 2: Mrs Fagan's Game; 3: Mrs Fagan's Game Resumed; 4: Mrs Fagan's Family 5: Mrs Fagan's Politics; 6: Another Mrs Fagan...and Her Politics; 7...And the Final "Mrs Fagan"
16 September A French Connection - Young French aristos caught playing chess in Richmond.
30 September & 14 October Played on Squares (Bloomsbury and Chess) 8 - and 9, on E.M. Forster - a continuation of the series begun in 2015 here.
16 December The Bird Has Landed - an appreciation of Hans Renette's fine biog of Henry Bird.
2017
27 January et seq. A series on Herbert Jacobs, described in his obituary in 1950 as, in his time, one of the strongest players in the country - 1. Beginning in Croydon; 2. Brixton, Benedict and Bar; 3.City Champ; 4. Congress Man; 5. A Load of Old Cablers; 6.Engaging Agnes; 7. Congress Man Replayed; 8. Madame Larkcom; 9. Jacobs Crackers; 10. Votes for Women!; 11. Votes for Jacobs!; 12. Intermission Riff; 13 Barrister; 14. Still at the Bar; 15. Down the Line; 16. Finale
28 April. Brixton Byways 2½: Peyers You Went - a reprise on the de Peyer brothers of the ancient Endeavour Chess Club of North Brixton, who were first described here.
22 September. Les Chesseurs Britanniques de Paris: Part 7. Addendum bis - a further episode* documenting the short lived British Chess Club of Paris active in the decade before WW2; beginning here.
6 October et seq. A further perambulatory sequence in the series started back here. This time Streatham Strolls West: Outward; then Backtrack; and Inward
1 December. *And yet another episode: Les Chesseurs....Part 8 Inital Confusion, Final Conclusion?
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