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A putto waterskiing on a crab features in my latest (free) newsletter. It’s about two houses at Pompeii, old money discretion versus new money bling. You can guess which is the more fun. understandingrome.substack.com/p/februarys-po…

Today’s new post : Lower Robert Street, Jenny’s Hole and the Tragic Death of a Child at alondoninheritance.com/london-streets…

Mind you, if this came up for auction in the UK, like as not it would be described as ‘suffragette’.

I hope it’s for the better, but you’ll now find me @womanssphere.bsky.social. I’ll keep an eye on here for the time being, but this site has rather lost its magic…

March's (free) monthly newsletter: a couple of thoughts on Neorealist cinema, and info on a Roman Cinema themed jaunt with Rachel Roddy in May understandingrome.substack.com/p/marchs-postc…

⭐ Happy International Women’s Day! ⭐ 🎉To celebrate, former Archives Centre By-Fellow Mari Takayanagi explores a photograph taken in 1944 to mark 25 years since Nancy Astor became the first female MP to take up her seat in the House of Commons. #internationalwomensday

Today we mark 157th anniversary of Elizabeth Corbet Yeats birth. Our 2025 exhibition & symposium in July will exploring the life and work of Elizabeth - as an artist & Froebel trained teacher; a craftswomen, fine art printer & business owner, and the mentor of young women.

Number 2 Gower Street, Bloomsbury, is now graced with 2 Blue Plaques - one for Millicent Fawcett and now one for her sister, Agnes, and cousin, Rhoda. Heroines. womanandhersphere.com/2025/03/11/ano…

English Heritage Delighted to see a Blue Plaque for Agnes and Rhoda Garrett the first women to run a professional interior design business. You can hear about them in our talk last month as part of our current online lecture series: bit.ly/4jHdNsj

Looking forward to this Naushabah Khan MP 🌹 and Dame Tracey Crouch

Excellent

Sguardi senza tempo: the extraordinary, moving, immediate, human beauty of glances that pierce four centuries in an instant. I dropped in on the new Caravaggio show at Palazzo Barberini. It is, of course, excellent. Substack post incoming for subscribers in the next few days.

Some thoughts on the major exhibitions on in Rome this spring. Caravaggio and Dalì just for starters. understandingrome.substack.com/p/spring-exhib…

Oh, no. I can’t imagine the speakers/thinkers were paid much - so is it just that original thinking has to be obliterated?

Every time he speaks he demonstrates that he's a headbanger.

Always appreciate appreciation! And it’s such fun to investigate the lives of Furrowed Middlebrow writers

The view from the foreshore at Bell Watergate Stairs – Woolwich, from today’s new post at alondoninheritance.com

Why is There a Suffragette Museum in the Middle of a Hospital? Join us for a lunchtime talk at the Pankhurst Museum on Saturday 14th June to find out more about the history of Manchester Royal Infirmary and its unusual neighbour at 62 Nelson Street. eventbrite.co.uk/e/why-is-there…

Some of these Rosebery Ave trees were planted c 1890 by the Metropolitan Public Gardens Assoc -under the direction of their landscape gardener, Fanny Wilkinson. Read @ her + friends in my ‘Enterprising Women: the Garretts and their circle’ womanandhersphere.com/2025/03/11/ano…

Never tire of this. Wonderful Dean Street Press. Such style. Susan Scarlett (Noel Streatfeild) – Twelve Sparkling, Romantic Novels. youtu.be/WsOugR5wP8c?si… via YouTube