From the Archives: A Cambridge Letter
Excerpted from the 16 May, 1956 Edition of The Isis Magazine ‘Guess Where It’s Heaven to be a Girl!’ the Woman’s Sunday Mirror gushed a short while back; we couldn’t, so read on. Cambridge University, it seems, is this very green eden, offering women students 
The Gold Drawings: Evelyn De Morgan at Leighton House
As far as is known, Evelyn De Morgan made only seventeen ‘gold drawings’. Eleven of these are arranged along Leighton House’s basement gallery, tracing a filigree thread across the four dark walls. The room is low-ceilinged, and its walls are the same matte grey as the carefully selected woven
The Tolkien Brothers and their Shire: An Interview with Chris Tolkien
Chris Tolkien is J. R. R. Tolkien’s great-nephew, one of the few remaining relatives of Tolkien’s with first-hand memories of the writer. We meet at Chris’ garden nurseries just outside the Worcestershire town of Evesham, on the same plot of land that Hilary Tolkien bought when he moved to the
Community Facebook Pages are my Kardashians
“Did anyone hear strange noises at 4.00am this morning?” During one long night spent under the UV lights of Hertford’s (soon to be demolished) windowless library basement, I decided to join my local community Facebook page. In doing so, I hoped to feel the warm, albeit virtual, embrace of my s
