London Calling

1787 portrait of Admiral Edmund Afflech. Jane Austen knew a lot about the Royal Navy of her time. Her novel Persuasion, is often referred to...

  It’s strange how various things can come together to get you thinking along a new track.I  read something about Edmund Burke and his extre...

  George Wickham and Lydia Bennet Is George Wickham, in Pride and Prejudice, more complex than we thought? Wickham is one the most loathed c...

 Dr Johnson and the first members of The Club meeting in a second floor room of The Turks Head Tavern. In 1764 , two friends, Sir. Joshua Re...

  My dog eared copy of the Penguin Classics version of Pride and Prejudice. On Sunday 7th April I was invited to take part in a ZOOM meeting...