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 …
Online talk 3 June
I’ve started a series of online lectures to help us through this strange time of staying at home. The first was a virtual tour of …
Lockdown Lectures
Tomorrow I was supposed to be taking alumni from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, on a tour of the National Portrait Gallery in London. Now, we’ll be …
Dickens Lost Portrait podcast
If you’re looking for something to listen to during this strange time of lockdown, here’s a link to the podcast I made with Philip Mould, …
Happy Birthday Dickens!
Happy birthday to my great great great grandfather: Charles Dickens was born on 7 February 1812. Find out more in my book, which is available …
Learn to write in Tuscany – book now!
Places are now available for my Life Writing course in the beautiful Verrocchio Art Centre in Tuscany. The course runs from 25 June 2020 until …
Top Podcasts of 2019!
So pleased to see that my podcast “The Real Sherlock” made it into this article in Good Housekeeping Magazine: https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle/a30194508/best-audible-podcasts/