#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/
The lost portrait of Charles Dickens
In the 1880s, not long before her death, Scottish artist Margaret Gillies was approached by the writer Frederick George Kitton, who wanted to know what …