- 25 October 2025
Well, what has Oscar Wilde got to do with early music? It’s complicated but it...
- 23 October 2025
Viols of all sizes were very popular in Tudor and Stuart Britain but they fell...
- 22 October 2025
Craig Jordan-Baker discusses his new book Brick Dust, exploring themes of family, hoarding, and the...
- 20 October 2025
Isn’t it rather naughty to be obsessed with nuns? Well, when their music is so...
- 20 October 2025
There’s a very good reason that Coleridge-Taylor’s work was so popular 100 years ago, and...
Reviews
The Charles Dickens Literary Cabaret
- 18 May 2012
Performance group Scary Little Girls hosted an evening of literary nudges and Dickensian winks in...
A Séance With The Ogden Sisters
- 18 May 2012
Blowing the lid off Victorian spirit seekers, this peculiar trio arrived as one rising from...
Dr Frankenstein’s Travelling Freak Show
- 18 May 2012
Marvellously grotesque and freakishly compulsive. This bullying tyrant of a Victorian showman and his collection...