Restoration reading

5 April 2013 by Felicity Henderson

Robert Hooke’s Micrographia is one of my favourite Restoration books, written by one of my favourite Restoration gentlemen. It’s also…

Mediterranean blue

19 March 2013 by Keith Moore

It’s always nice to see an old friend, especially in an unexpected place. I was very pleased, therefore, and slightly…

Watch the skies!

15 February 2013 by Rupert Baker

Well, today is certainly a lively day in the heavens, what with meteors over Russia and the close approach of…

Can you feel the chemistry?

14 February 2013 by Joanna Hopkins

Here at numbers 6-9 Carlton House Terrace there is one man who sets girls’ hearts fluttering, one man who makes…

The romantic Mr Edwards

13 February 2013 by Keith Moore

Treasure on the high seas in the swashbuckling days of the eighteenth century wasn’t always the usual boring chests of…