A couple of months ago at the launch party for Rivals in the City , I read aloud a scene that takes place outside Newgate Prison. The year i...

I was going to write an entirely different post today about Remembrance Day – I had it fully imagined, and even half written – b...

I have been listening to the recent BBC Radio 4 programme, Noise: A Human History by David Hendy  (you can catch some of it on iPlayer if yo...

For my own nefarious purposes I make occasional visits to the Guildhall Library, London, poring through the long history and development of ...