mrs miniver's daughter

I think I have a new favourite bookshop, now that the book barge is permanently moored by the canalside steps at Granary Square. On a b...

Portrait of a Lady known as Smeralda Bandinelli It was a great treat at the V&A this morning to find this Botticelli portrait displ...

Tame or pornographic? Put me down for mildly boring and toe-curlingly embarrassing. Not a good start to the BBC's 20th century clas...

Far and away the best treat of the holidays has been this absolutely fabulous production of The Railway Children at King's Cross. I...

This morning, to my surprise, I opened the last jar of homemade marmalade 2014. I didn't make any this year to give myself the chance to...

My National Trust card had a good airing this week. There has been Edwardian splendour at Polesden Lacey , a fascinating story of fema...

I wasn't intending total immersion in Bloomsbury, but it seems to have crept up on me since my recent visit to Charleston and Monk...