Having bit of a sort out. Who remembers Colman Prentis and Varley?

Dr Samuel Johnson Wants a Word with You! From Lichfield to a garret in Gough Square, his life shows why words matter. Honoured to be part of the Dr's team at the House of Words flotandjet.com/2023/05/13/dr-…

The story of the rebels, radicals, drop-outs and rule breakers who built Brand America #brand #twitterstorians linkedin.com/posts/paulchri…

Happy Birthday, Elias en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Ash…

⁦lucie skeaping⁩ another bargain bought in Cannes!

Continental breakfast, anyone?

Another Seventeenth Century portrait part of the late Picasso exhibition in Antibes. This one is called the Witch Finder General, apparently.

Entrevaux cathedral - Louis XIII looks like his brother in law Charles I? upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm…

You could write a poem about this

What else to do when jet lagged than get up to watch the early kickoff #wwfc vs Spurs with the #NYC Wolves?!

There are only so many ways it's possible to engage seriously with the 'Princes in the Tower' stuff we saw at the weekend, and I'm running out of them. There is a final point to make, though, about why scholarly historians don't tend to touch it with a 20-foot pole. 1/10.

Had a little deja vu watching Napoleon last night.

A little Proustian epic here - of creative business, fatherhood and enterprise flotandjet.com/2024/02/20/poe…

Poetry Inspired by Shotover: flotandjet.com/2024/02/21/poe…

The Merchant of Viennetta - sad story! thetimes.co.uk/article/unilev…

⁦Jessie Childs⁩

It must be time for a film festival

Love this juxtaposition in the National Portrait Gallery - Ralph Vaughan Williams next to Sid James.