Category: History

  • Edwardian Inspiration

    In Sky Garden, the heroine is curator of a quirky museum in Bloomsbury that is all about the Edwardian era. Researching what would have been in an Edwardian home and the attitudes that would have been on display was a lot of fun. Then, add in that the hero of Sky Garden designs an Edwardian-inspired…

  • Favourite Cemeteries

    Do you have a favourite cemetery? The question isn’t as bizarre as it sounds. Cemeteries can be the most fascinating place to wander. The memorialising of people’s lives lends history a reality that history books (much as I love them) can’t capture. It doesn’t hurt that old cemeteries are often sited in great inner city…

  • Old Things

    A couple of weeks ago I visited the Azelia Ley Homestead Museum which is a small museum in one of Western Australia’s old houses. The idea was to take some photos that I could rustle up into a post come October when “Courting Trouble” releases. However, I became a tad side tracked and took photos…

  • Royal Albert Hall

    I thought the Royal Albert Hall would be a nice follow on to yesterday’s post on 1890s music. If you click here, you can read its history and take a virtual tour. I adore virtual tours, lazy traveller that I am 🙂

  • 1890s Music

    Music halls were a popular entertainment of the 1890s. They even became … gasp, horror! respectable. In those pre-radio days you also had phonograph recordings and sheet music. Howeveryou heard the songs, they did become hits. And have lived on [see “The Streets of Cairo” as an example of how snippets were incorporated into more…