Author: Melanie Atherton Allen

Hello! For an explanation of my theme for this April A to Z Blogging Challenge, consult the sidebar. If there is no sidebar displayed on your device, check under the Comments section. Either way, my theme explanation is directly under my 2018 A to Z Badge. The X-Factor   By… Continue reading

This Entry is part of my 2018 A To Z Blogging Challenge, The Lighthouse Agent’s A to Z Guide. See the sidebar for a kind of explanation of my theme. If there is no sidebar on your device, check underneath the Comments section. Either way, the explanation should be directly… Continue reading

Dear Sir or Madam, I write to you today on a topic of Absorbing Interest: the Victorian Era (my own little field of study). I know, Agent, what you are picturing.  Hovering in the background of your picture is the dumpy figure of the Queen, in her widow’s weeds, setting… Continue reading

By Cormorant Garamond, surly half-drunken sot, and Professor of Comparatively Modern History Greetings, friend Agent! I cannot believe I am addressing you for the second day in a row. Admin seems to think that Professors exist to be bullied and bossed around by them. And I admit they are quite… Continue reading

by Cormorant Garamond, Prof. of Comparatively Modern History After a lot of Interdepartmental Dispute, and a certain amount of Skullduggery, the History Department has somehow managed to stick me with the thankless task of preparing a Timeline for you Agent people to senselessly gape at. I’ve skimped a bit, and… Continue reading

Agent! Do you feel more at home in some part of The Past than you do in the digital bustle of the Present Day? Is it increasingly difficult to step back through that Door, to leave the squalor of The Past behind for the sterile halls of The Lighthouse? If… Continue reading

WARNING: Um. Okay, look, I think this post is amusing. I am also a bit on the morbid side. Some people may possibly find this post upsetting? Maybe? Anyway, if you’re feeling kind of fragile, I’d read something else. Literally anything else on this site, for example. Or call again… Continue reading

Ah, Agent. I won’t introduce myself, if you understand me. No names, no pack drill. Also noticed my colleagues who are free with their identities tend to die by violence pretty smartly thereafter. Not a popular job, you understand. We’re the ones who will come for you, y’see. Oh, not… Continue reading