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• Catherine of Aragon

  

  Catherine of Aragon, Sittow, c1502. Photo: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.I’ve loved this portrait of Catherine of Aragon ever since I first saw it as a littl... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Frances Burney

  

  Frances d’Arblay Burney, Edward Burney, c1784. Photo: National Portrait Gallery, London.I was twelve, that dangerous age when several of my female friends and... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Stuff I Have Done – The Poorly Christmas Edition

  

  Pretending to be Sherlock Holmes at the SS Great Britain yesterday.Pinch, punch, first post of 2014! It’s a bit late in the day, but I got here in the end. In m... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Looking Forward to 2014

  

  Christ Church, Spitalfields. Photo: Melanie Clegg.Following on from yesterday’s highlights of 2013, I thought it’d be fun or interesting or whatever to have a... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• The 2013 Top Ten

  

  At the Cheapside Hoard exhibition preview, Museum of London. Photo: Suzy Nightingale. Wow, what a busy and action packed year it has been – full of all manner o... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Advent Calendar – Day Twenty Five

  

  Evening gown, American or European, c1905. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.MERRY CHRISTMAS! You’ve all been amazing this year and I honestly think... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Advent Calendar – Day Twenty Four

  

  Ball gown, French, 1900-2. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.Well, we’ve made it to Christmas Eve, which of course means that you all get a VERY... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Advent Calendar – Day Twenty Three

  

  Evening gown, Vionnet (Paris), Winter 1938/9. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.All this Foyle’s War watching has made me hanker for the sophisticated... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Advent Calendar – Day Twenty Two

  

  Ball gown, Mrs Osborn Company (American), 1910. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.I think the twenty second dress in my flouncy advent calendar of DOO... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Advent Calendar – Day Twenty One

  

  Evening dress, Weeks (France), 1910. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.Day Twenty One and I think this might be one of my personal favourites among al... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Advent Calendar – Day Twenty

  

  Evening gown, Hoschedé Rebours (Paris), c1885. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Day twenty! Cor blimey, guv’nor, five more days to go! Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• New Cover for The Secret Diary!

  

  One of the best things about self publishing is the fact that you can chop and change the appearance, content and, well, pretty much EVERYTHING about your book... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Portrait of the Week – Madame Royale

  

  Marie Thérèse Charlotte de France, Füger, c1795. Photo: Hermitage Museum.The unfortunate Marie Thérèse Charlotte of France was born in Versailles on this day... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Advent Calendar – Day Nineteen

  

  Evening gown, Worth (Paris), c1910-4. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Nineteen days! Nineteen days! Just six more to go! Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Advent Calendar – Day Eighteen

  

  Court gown, British, c1750. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Behind the eighteenth window of my advent calendar of FLOUNCY DOOM there is this... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Advent Calendar – Day Seventeen

  

  Evening dress, Worth (France), c1898-1900. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.Crikey, not long to go now! Behind the seventeenth window of my advent... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Advent Calendar – Day Sixteen

  

  Evening dress, French, c1805. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Although I would hardly call myself a Janeite, I have been on a bit of an Austen... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Advent Calendar – Day Fifteen

  

  Evening gown, Liberty (London), c1880. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.Behind the fifteenth window of my pretend flouncy advent calendar there... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Advent Calendar – Day Fourteen

  

  Evening gown, Chanel, c1957. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.How this month is flying by! I still have loads to do and diminishing time in which to... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Advent Calendar – Day Thirteen

  

  Evening gown, Worth (Paris), 1898-1900. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.Okay, after all the excessive flounce and furbelow of the last couple of... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY