National art and national identity: Visiting St. Petersburg’s Russian Museum
You know that quaint and vaguely demeaning phrase, “always a bridesmaid, never a bride?” Well, it sort of fits the subject of this post,…
Wacky, Whimsical, Wonderful Wednesday, British Edition!
Hello everybody, and welcome to Wacky, Whimsical, Wonderful Wednesday, British edition. Grab a cup of tea (forgive me, a cuppa) and a pack of…
Wacky, Whimsical, Wonderful Wednesday for May 10th
Congratulations, one and all, we've made it to Wednesday! I won't waste time on midweek rhapsodizing, you all know why we celebrate Wednesday. So…
Building the Tudor Dynasty, Part II: Lady Margaret Beaufort and the Years of Waiting Dangerously
So, um, it’s been a little while since I updated this series on Lady Margaret Beaufort and building of the Tudor dynasty. Need to…
Building (literally) the Tudor dynasty: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Henry VII, and the Westminster Abbey Lady Chapel (Part I of III)
(I apparently had a great deal to say on this topic, so I decided to break up the post into smaller parts. Keep an…