Staircase Wit

Having read a lot of historical fiction set during WWII in which Bletchley Park and those who worked there played a part, I was excited to v...

On Saturday, I got up hideously early in order to catch a coach from Victoria Station to Bristol, then another to Wells, which I had heard w...

Our visit on Thursday was to my friend Nicky Smith’s nearby Marylebone Library, which is a public library affiliated with the Borough of Wes...

On Wednesday, Archivist Francesca Hillier took us behind the scenes for a closer look at what is in the British Museum’s collection and we w...

There was a Tube strike on Tuesday, and while their dispute over pensions and job cuts is probably legitimate I can only imagine the negativ...

Today we went to visit the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, which has its own library and archives. We were early for our library to...

I thought Sunday seemed the perfect day to walk on Hampstead Heath, so first I found a church in the neighborhood and took a bus there. St ...

It was my friend Kathy Baxter who told me she had visited the house upon which The Children of Green Knowe is based and if I had fully gras...