The Rowing Gold at the 1936 Olympics was won by an American varsity team: tall athletic young men from the new world who rowed their way to a magnificent victory.
On Rebecca Solnit's website she is described as 'the author of 13 books about art, landscape, public and collective life, ecology, politics, hope, meandering, reverie, and memory'.
Eleven-year-old Ruth sits at the bedroom window with her brother and sister on New Year’s Eve and announces that a bad thing will happen in the coming year.
Before the celebrations of 2012, with the Olympics and Diamond Jubilee, 2011 showed a very different face of Britain, when headlines were made by Occupy’s protests against economic inequality and r
