The Hearth of Mopsus

Curiously I found out about the 1932 Elvira Barney murder case through my investigations into Surrey Anglo-Catholicism. The Sisters of St Ma...

Time ticks on and the next Goth Walk approaches fast: on Thursday I traced the route, discovering that we would be going past the houses of ...

Katrin my god-daughter shares a house with two friends not far from the Thames in Rotherhithe, commuting from there to the Treasury where at...

It would be churlish to point out the paucity of deep black among the Walkers yesterday, pictured as we paused for a group photo at the foun...

Unless something goes dramatically wrong tomorrow or Monday - say, as my friend Ms Mauritia suggested, the London Marathon runners find thei...

My visit to London yesterday had three purposes: to plot out the route for my proposed next history walk; to pop to the Victoria Library for...

Following on the recent theme of not doing work, some time ago I was invited to pop out to London with Lady Wildwood and Ms MaisyMaid as the...

Although getting to London yesterday was more problematic than usual, requiring catching the train at Woking rather than anywhere further do...

A week last Saturday I went with Lady Wildwood and MaisyMaid to see The Horror Show! at Somerset House, a bit nervously as it was my suggest...

Oh dear, I should have posted about my trip to London on Friday 28th to attend this event: a combined lecture-cum-recital hosted by Dr Emma ...

It finally happened: my Goth Walk about the history of late 19th- and early-20th century London occultism was originally going to take place...

My first Nunhead Cemetery Open Day was in 2008, although I claimed here it was a year earlier. Last year, of course, nothing happened, and e...

Despite declines in Covid levels a visit to London still seems like a risky adventure and if yesterday's experience is anything to go by...

Before I set off for Warwickshire last week, the first act of my Autumn break was to stand very awkwardly in the drizzle outside the Counc...

It looks rather as though my amazing friend Professor Purplepen has seen something shocking on the other side of the meeting room at The ...

Around the back of Westminster Abbey is a maze of passages and courtyards formed from the buildings of the former monastery of St Peter. I f...