‘In the beginning, woman was the sun.’ Hiratsuka Raichō Moga , pictured in  Mainichi shimbun   ‘Modern gals’ If you had visited Tokyo in the...

 Jewellery Displays at the Ritz Paris In among all the Brexit misery and non-shuffling cabinet re-shuffles that have dominated the pres...

For those of us who like their televised historical fiction with a slag-heap of grit and a soundtrack that favours Nick Cave over luscious s...

I live in Scotland, so I am rarely troubled by being too hot.  But the summers were scorchers where I grew up and I now have a son living in...

I recently travelled to Australia for the first time to visit my sister, who emigrated out to Melbourne earlier this year. It might have bee...

My first ever offering to the Cabinet of Curiosities are these very plain, rather dented pewter jugs: The largest stands at 10cm tall,...

The fashion for ‘vintage’ seems to grow all the time - clothes and home decor and hobbies that either are or have been made to look old. A...

Having just finished my latest novel, ‘Time of Flight’, which is set in 1931, and features - amongst other characters - a number of ...