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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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Is the name of the V & A’s current FREE exhibition of Silvia Weidenbach’s jewellery. Weidenbach is the V & A’s first Gilbert Collection artist in residence and it is the works in that collection which inspired her own creations, … Continue reading
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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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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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