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Tracy Chevalier, one of today’s finest writers of historical fiction, is coming to a beautiful church in south London on 3rd December, 2018. I have written before about her 2003 novel The Lady and the Unicorn ( see Summer Reading … 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
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Not quite since its inception, but from not so long after, the London Underground has been a place for art and design. The Paris Metro had its distinctive art nouveau entrances and lettering from the outset, though Parisians complained about … Continue reading
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The New York Subway has its escaped alligators (the descendants, supposedly, of those creatures once fashionable as up-market pets and flushed down the lavatory when they became too tiresome or their rich owners got bored); Warsaw has its armed resistance … 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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