As most people know, Christmas trees were first introduced into the UK in the nineteenth century, influenced by the habits of the royal...

We have a "Cabinet of curiosities" post on the 30th of each month that has 31 days, i.e. seven months in every year. Usually one o...

My chosen item for the cabinet of curiosities is perhaps not such an usual choice for a writer as it is a book, in this case a 1933 edition ...

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

Dame Henrietta Barnett Henrietta Barnett was one of those formidable late Victorian/Edwardian dames who set out to change the world. A...

Other people have friends who take up tennis or tatting. I have friends who take up taxidermy. (Also skull collection: ‘Can I call you back?...

Into this month’s Cabinet of Curiosities, I want to put my chair (of uncertain date but most likley Elizabethan) because it is a curiosit...

I’ve written before about the Natural History Museum in Venice , quite recently reopened after decades of restoration. I’ve recorded how, ...