Tudor childhood: from dodging death to nursery rhymes
Nicholas Orme, author of new book Tudor Children, joined Emily Briffett to talk about the lives of young people in the era
Touring Nicola & Christopher Cox’s Captivating Edwardian Home | Visitors’ Book
The World of Interiors presents Visitors’ Book with Nicola & Christopher Cox. Sculptors Nicola & Christopher Cox welcome us into their nature-inspired London home, filled with elemental pieces of furniture…
Touring Emery Walker’s House: A Captivating Arts & Crafts Treasure Trove | Visitors’ Book
The World of Interiors presents Visitors’ Book from Emery Walker’s House at 7 Hammersmith Terrace. Together with William Morris, Emery Walker was a trailblazer of the arts and crafts movement…
‘The Dig’ – Hiding Sutton Hoo’s women
My immediate impression after watching the film was to question why the three female leads were presented as a vulnerable, passive, with a dull ongoing focus on their fictional problems,…
Proms Extra: Opium and Creativity in the 19th c.
From Thomas De Quincy via Coleridge to Berlioz, a second-generation opium addict, Daisy Hay and Richard Davenport-Hines discuss why drugs were thought integral to creativity first in England and later…