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It was a clear evening and cold. A full moon illuminated the streets below, the white stucco of Pimlico and the red brick of Chelsea. Red hazard lights twinkled like stationary fireflies around Battersea Power Station, as the commuter trains … Continue reading
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Where can a writer get to see 1930s interiors, of back to back city terraces and in middle class villas? What about the post WWII bombed out streets of London, or those same streets, almost car-less, in the 1960s? In … Continue reading
Today’s post is by Katie Isbester, Director of Claret Press. Brace yourselves because I’m about to make two contradictory statements. Here goes the first: It is my passionately held belief that the essence of storytelling has not changed over the … Continue reading
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I have always been intrigued by maps. I find that a map piques one’s curiosity and fires one’s imagination. What’s that feature – a tumulus, a burial mound? Whose? Why was that town built there? What does that place name mean? … Continue reading
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One of the enormous pleasures of visiting the Victoria & Albert Museum in South Kensington is that the design museum, even with its amazing historic collections, continues also to focus on the contemporary, so one gets to see the very … Continue reading
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