This is the first of the 'Livres de Mois' where on the last Sunday of the month I share books that I have read and discovered or old favou..

Hedy Lamarr, born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler November 9, 1914  was an Austrian-American actress, inventor and film producer. I could not...

I visited Wimpole Hall the day after going to The Fitzwilliam Museum. It was the end of a hot September and the grounds were all burnt to...

Raymond Voinquel, born 11 January 1912 in Fraize (Vosges), was a French still photographer who specialised in portraits, working on...

'Another Country' is a 1984 British romantic historical drama written by Julian Mitchell, adapted from his play of the same name....

Born in 1881, William Bruce Ellis Ranken was a Scottish artist and Edwardian Aesthete. He had an idyllic childhood living in vast estates...

With new projects of mine now entering further into the world of horticulture I thought back to my first garden inspiration, and while my...

Born Rupert Chawner Brooke, 3 August 1887, in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire, son of a headmaster, Brooke attended preparatory (prep)...

The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge. From antiquity to the present day, the...

I have only written a brief overview of the duchess because she was an incredible woman and there are many articles about her written by...