Renaissance Utterances

I fulfilled an ambition at the weekend; to run down The Cut to Limehouse Basin, head on to Narrow Street via Ropemaker Fields, and then o...

Old and New Clare Style Collyer Bristow is home to a long-standing art gallery which presents the best and most interesting contemporary...

Buy a fine singing bird (1688) If you're an exotic creature, there's no trusting anything outside in January. From tiny tapirs ...

Too many lectures not enough art was the verdict yesterday. With the coming of the darkness, rather than listening to words, it was time ...

Stephen Walter 'London Subterranea' (2012) After spending a virtual week in the troll-inhabited unmannerly wilderness of the int...

Chris Orr RA. On the Road to Damascus Heraclitus has entered into my life twice in the past week, both times relating to discussions of ...

Paul Writing, c.1894 by Camille Pissarro Forgive the Latin pretension but I'm talking about poetry and it's a licence to be pret...

Once again the happy connections that are constantly weaving themselves around me struck this evening. I'd done a favour for one of my ...

You may recall that I spent a happy evening in the London Metropolitan Archives looking at their photographs. So when I had the opportunity...

Last night took me to the vast  London Metropolitan Archives in Clerkenwell. The only way it can be described is ‘a collection of collect...