Archive for Juni 2016

It's that time of year...

It’s that time of year to don one’s best bonnet and go gallivanting again to Regency events and the ever so delightful balls and assemblies....

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PIPES, SNUFF AND POISON Looking at images of Georgian life, one gets the impression that the use of tobacco was neither general nor widespre...

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View from the drive. View from the front. I try and visit a couple of stately homes every year. The first of 2016 was Melford Hall. The Hall...

I’m always a sucker for TV and film adaptations of my favourite historical novels and Jane Austen’s books are at the top of my list. Regardl...

My first thought on visiting the Park of Monsters, a.k.a. the Park of Wonders or the Sacred Grove at Bomarzo, in Lazio, Italy, was that it ...

Okay, you have an idea for your book, a really great idea, a fantastic love story! You start writing in a flush of enthusiasm and its all go...