Olof de Wignacourt (1547-1622), Grand Master of the Order of St John, Malta In 2024, I had the pleasure of staying at the House of W. in Nic...

Sited at the other end of the Royal Mile to Edinburgh Castle stands Holyrood Palace. It's built on what remains of an Augustinian Priory...

                                                          Pablo Casals in 1917 at Carnegie Hall. If you are reading this on the day I am pub...

     My seventh novel, The Fairy Visions of Richard Dadd , was first published by Peter Owen in 2013. Sadly, Peter Owen died in 2016 and I n...

 In the course of my research, I often have to know (if possible to know) where a particular English monarch was spending Christmas.  This h...