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From 2019

Great Balls of Fire - anniversary of an historic artwork

Victoria & Albert - newly weds

From 2018

Happy New Year - reading and writing in 2019

The Golden Age of Book Covers
William James Neatby - an introduction
Why the book is (almost always) better than the movie.
Elizabeth I’s Sieve Portrait - allegory and meaning.
Book Cover Update - The Hours Before.
John Atkinson Grimshaw - painter of moonlight.
Remembering Arthur Hughes, the ‘quiet’ Pre-Raphaelite.
Farringford House restored - the poet Tennyson’s family home.

Fom 2017

Winter leaves - garden colour and amazement still.
Pizza Roberto Stephano- how to cook up a delicious snack.
Wanderer in the Storm - a favourite Gothic painting.
Happy Birthday Alfred Lord Tennyson! Victorian Poet Laureate.
Celebrating Midsummer - in painting and verse.
A Walk in the Bluebell Woods.
Sir Henry Raeburn - painter of ‘The Skating Minister.’
Tudors by Holbein - the treacherous court of Henry VIII.
2016 in Review.

From 2016

All together now! Queen Victoria’s right royal family gathering.
Poets for Halloween! Remembering John Keats, his birthday.
When Alexander met the Queen. The ingenious Graham Bell.
All of a sudden … it’s Autumn.
Happy Birthday - Tudor Queen Elizabeth - A portrait in the making.
Victoria’s Embankment - a story of progress in 19th century art.
Remembering Anne Boleyn - the ill-fated Tudor Queen.
Historical Portraits ‘Um, made me a bit shifty-looking, haven’t you?’
The Testament of Sophie Dawes - a Victorian Gothic novel.
7 Questions to an Author.
Tower of London - also comes with ships.

From 2015

Wishing you a Happy Christmas!
Review: ‘We Are Villains All.’
The Blind Girl, by Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais.
Trafalgar Square from cross to column, a change of place & mood.
Autumn Extracts - paintings and stories combined.
Being There - thoughts about living for the moment.
The Epistolary Novel & Music of Bach - reading between the lines.
Remembering Inigo Jones - England’s Pioneering Architect.
A Tudor Poisoned Chalice - Lady Jane Grey & the Crown.
My Favourite ‘Julia Margarets’ - Pre-Raphaelite photography.
Scarlet Poppy Fair - a flower with a history.
The Poet and the Queen - meetings of Victoria and Tennyson.
6th Anniversary Cover Makeover - new look to a Tudor novel.
Sir Robin’s Election Manifesto, 2015.
A New Cover for Wildish - my epic Georgian-era comedy.
My Favourite Mucha - images from the Belle Epoque.
Myths, Magic and Mothering Sunday (UK).
Snowdrops and Periwinkle.
Time - Regulator or Commander? A history.

From 2014

Happy Reading for 2015! A woman reading by candlelight.
Wishing you all a Very Happy Christmas!
A Moment in Time. The Jacobite march south into England.
GOTH ROBIN - a Special Guest Post for Halloween.
Lord Kitchener’s Valet - selling to impressionable young men.
Painted Ladies and Melancholic Poets. The problem with old portraits.
Q&A with Kirsty Stonell-Walker. It’s all about her new novel.
A Curl of Copper and Pearl. The story of Alexa Wilding.
Modern Historical Fiction. Out of time - or is it?
Portrayals of Mary Tudor, Princess and Queen of England.
Elizabeth Siddal - a reminder of why we remember.
Hurrah for matt covers! And paperbacks without curl.
Isabella .. and the Pot of Basil.

From 2013

Just what do you give an author for Christmas, anyway?
Remembering Holbein - an indefinite ending.
The Garden in November - a place of colour and surprise.
Remember, remember - a thought for Guy Fawkes Night.
60’s Noir - a special Halloween Guest Post from Sir Robin.
Halloween and All Souls - Holistic or Hysterical?
New Cover for The Arrow Chest.
Working Space.
What do you see? Perception and memory.
Thoughts on getting my first ever Kindle.
Happy Birthday Alexander Pope, the Georgian-era poet.
Various Observations on a Jolly Good Week.
Out in the Garden.
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump.
The world upside down. The Masquerade.
The Sonnet - a no-frills, no-nonsense explanation.
The elusive Wildish - an early sighting!
Mr Wildish’s London.

From 2011

Endymion’s New Year’s Honours List.
A Christmas Message (and why I didn’t just use a photo).
Vox Populi - a painting, surprisingly, for Christmas.
Thoughts on an Usherette - art by Edward Hopper.
A Poem, a Microscope and what we cannot see.
All Saints - the day after the night before.
Remembering Thomas Wyatt - Tudor courtier and poet.
The Doppelgänger - the creative self behind the door.
Du Bist Die Ruh - one work, 3 great artists.
Thank you Sir Kenneth Clark - civilisation on TV.
Happy Summer Solstice! And a little bit of Shakespeare.
Hardwick Hall - more glass than wall!
Historical Fiction anyone? Yes, but is it Art?
Those naughty Pre-Raphaelites - or were they?
A Special Valentine Idea - introducing the Tussie Mussie.
A Tudor Tour.

From 2010

Happy Feast of St Martin!
The Divine Mr Beardsley.
John Dee and the Invention of the Telescope.
How not to become a great opera star - with wine and cheese.
Those Dull Victorians? Well, no, not really.
The Feast of Michaelmas.
Gothic Revival and the Town Halls of the North.
Pauline Trevelyan - A Diary Entry.
Crispy-Noodly Recipe.
Caspar David Friedrich ‘Die Lebensstufen’ (1835).

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