One of the few benefits of the pandemic lockdown has been the chance to catch up on long-postponed tasks. I’d been meaning to create a Wikipedia page for Charles Barker Howdill for quite a while, and now the entry is live. As with all Wikipedia pages, the Howdill entry...
Last August I spent a fascinating afternoon at the Leeds Museums and Galleries Discovery Centre, looking through Charles Barker Howdill’s copious Jutland notes. The well-worn small green leather folder contains around a hundred looseleaf items, most of them handwritten jottings for his slide lectures about Jutland. We know that Howdill...