Back to Brunelleschi

In June this year I was invited to Florence to give a paper, entitled ‘Colonial Science beyond Imperial Borders: Early Twentieth Century Sc...

"Red Wedding" on the Scale of Poshness

"Does it really make sense to spend so much on a wedding that you feel bankrupt the day after?" asks the subtitle for Seema Goswam...

Mind Maps of the Past & Present

The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past by John Lewis Gaddis (Oxford University Press, 2004)  History is a construct, a matte...

Of Time & Tide - Reflections on the River Thames

Living near the River Thames I’m often struck by the fact it is so empty these days. It was much busier when I was a child, so the decline ...