Monthly Archives: August 2014
New TV series on the history of dancing – some behind-the-scenes pictures for you
This week our new BBC Four series on dancing -‘Cheek to Cheek, An Intimate History of Dance’ – was officially announced at the Edinburgh Festival, and you can read the press release here. They also released a picture taken during the day we danced the Charleston at the Cafe de Paris in Leicester Square. What
Continue ReadingI invite you to be my stylist … on the theme of ‘Tudor Magnificence’
Dear internet friends, Now obviously we discuss history and research and stuff like that on this blog. But we also like clothes and shoes, don’t we? And yes, these things matter. Certainly as an art historian I have no problem in agreeing that they can be propaganda of the highest order. At the moment, I
Continue ReadingOn writing history articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Warning: this post gets a bit technical and may only be of interest to hard-core historians. It’s exactly ten years since I learned that my first book was to be published by Faber & Faber. I remember getting the phone call at work, in our Monday morning management team meeting. I’d left my phone switched
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