Evolving Identities+Memory Through Time
At the end of August, I presented a paper at the The British Association for Victorian Studies Conference: Victorian Age(s). I was...
A walk around Peebles
I spent Saturday in Peebles. My husband and children came up Saturday evening from Sheffield so that we could all go to Peebles for a...
G. K. Chesterton and the second edition
I found a reference in UK RED to a work by Philip Waller that G. K. Chesteron had been reading Chambers’s Encyclopaedia. Chesterton wrote...
Mouching and working in the 1800s
The 19th century, like our own times, was full of contradictions. I say this because of the material I’ve been looking at recently. Last...
Working in Edinburgh
This will be a very busy week for me. I'm spending lots of time in the NMS offsite collection store facility and looking at specific...