A while ago, I wrote a piece for The Conversation on ‘Guilty Pleasures: Reading Historical Fiction’. While the piece in itself was fun to write and allowed me to discuss favourite authors, such as C.J. Sansom, Sarah Dunant, Ariana Franklin and Toby Clements, the real joy of the article actually came from the feedback and…
Few topics are as challenging and yet ultimately rewarding for writers than writing stories about the lives of medieval women. Not only was the period particularly muscular with regards to its approaches to public life, but patriarchy was pervasive to the point of occasionally obliterating traces of even the most elite women from records. Or…
For me as a Venetian art historian, this project is about as exciting as it gets. The Venice Time Machine Project in a nutshell is a Digital Humanities project which seeks to reconstruct Venice in 4D, at different moments of its history. How this is done, is best explained here, in a TED talk by…
Flying through 17th century LondonOpen Culture is an amazing resource for teaching and research and well worth exploring; the audio recordings are often especially amazing. Here though I have chosen a link for the blog which features in my teaching on a Tudor module. I often use historic maps in my teaching and talk about…
https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/map.htm This is a link that forms the basis of several seminars I teach on Early Modern London, on space, on urban geography, on sociological readings of space- lots of ways in which I use this link. In a nutshell, the link leads to a site which makes a high resolution, searchable and annotated…
I think the time has come to add another category to my blog: miscellaneous and useful links…. Like many other researchers and avid users of social media, I come across interesting links and resources on a daily basis, and on all too many occasions, I then promptly forget to do something with the information I…
One of my favourite hobbies is photography, and I especially like taking my camera with me when travelling. I have been very fortunate in recent years to have been able to travel to China as part of my work (my employer, The University of Nottingham, has a sister campus in China, at Ningbo), and these…
On a recent family holiday to Jersey, I encountered a very unexpected reminder of my childhood in Germany. We went to Hamptonne , the Country Life Museum, and while my daughter went straight to the farmyard to coo over chicken, pigs and the exceptionally cute calves, I went to see the ‘Stitched Memories’ exhibition whch brings together…
My favourite holiday destination has long been Jersey, and suffice it to say that by now, as a family, we have returned repeatedly to explore the many castles, beaches and walks this wonderful island has to offer. This time though, I was determined to abandon the family for an afternoon and go on an arthistorical…
The term “Grand Tour’ evokes images of eighteenth- century British travellers exploring Europe, especially Italy and Greece, as part of their cultaural coming-of-age; in this context, the Grand Tour traditionally refers to experiences of living and practices of collecting that transformed elite living in the ealry 1800s. Encountering the term in 2015 is a bit…
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