In Conversation With series
Last night was the first in my new series of online talks, #InConversationWith. It started with Dickens and Film with fellow #author, lecturer and #screenwriter …
My new online course in Life Writing
Have you ever wanted to write your memoirs, or are you yearning to write the story of someone else’s life? Why not turn the surreal …
Eastbourne talk postponed
Today I should have been giving a talk about my book ‘Elizabeth Revealed’ at the lovely Langham Hotel in Eastbourne. Sadly, for obvious reasons, we’ve …
The tragedy of art’s greatest supermodel
In the winter of 1849-1850, the artists Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt were painting together, when their friend Walter Howell Deverell burst into …
Online talk: A hairy history of art!
Come on a pogonographic journey into the history of facial hair in art! A few years ago I was commissioned to give several lectures and …
De Morgan Foundation talk, 31 July
Last year, I was invited to become a Patron of the De Morgan Foundation. On 31 July, I’m doing my first event for them. Obviously …
Lizzie Siddal online talk
On Monday 6 July, I’m doing an online lecture on ‘Lizzie Siddal, The Original Supermodel’. It starts at 6pm UK time, and is joinable from …
Katey in the ODNB
My article on the artist Kate Perugini (née Dickens, also known as Kate Collins) has been published by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. It’s …
#Dickens150
9 June 2020 is the 150th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s death, and commemorative events had been planned for all over the world, which have sadly …