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Research- It’s A Tough Job
Tomorrow I’m off on a rather exciting research trip/holiday. First off, we’ll be in Florence for a few days to look at art, bookbinding workshops, perfumeries and anything connected to Catherine de’...
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Florence- Scoppio del Carro
Florence is packed with history. There are relics of the Medici and other great dynasties everywhere (though very little relating to the city’s daughter who went on to be queen of France, Catherine de’...
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Ferrara
About an hour on the train from Florence (after a change at Bologna), in the Emilia-Romagna is Ferrara, where the rather magnificent Castello Estense was home to the Dukes of Este. Castello Estense,...
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Summer Reading
History Today has recently made a few blog posts on summer reading so I thought I’d list some of mine. On Wednesday, I treked half-way across Edinburgh to pick up packages of books from the Royal Mail...
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The Best Non-Fiction I Read In 2011
Happy New Year everyone. One of my resolutions is to update this blog far more often. I thought I’d start with some of my reading highlights of the past year, starting with non-fiction. My non-fiction...
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Big news!
Despite a good start to the year, posts-wise, I’ve let this blog slip rather badly. I can only apologise, and offer something by way of an explanation. There are big changes afoot at Harlot Towers. In...
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Savonarola
I was in Florence on the anniversary of Savonarola’s execution. On 23 May 1498 the Dominican friar and two of his fellow monks, Fra Domenico and Fra Silvestro Maruffi, were hanged and burned for heresy...
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