Monthly Archives: February 2014
Take my Tudor test!
How well do you know your Thomas Wolsey from your Thomas Cromwell, and your Thomas Cranmer from your Thomas More? To find out, take my Tudor test…answers below, along with my assessment of your performance. Question One: An easy one, to warm up. Complete the rhyme: Divorced, Beheaded, Died Divorced, Beheaded … a. Bee-hived b. Alive
Continue ReadingI am in the same room as many, many celebrities
The other night I invited to the Radio Times Covers Party in the ballroom at Claridges. What is a Covers Party, you ask? Well, anyone who has been on the cover of the Radio Times in the past year is invited and is given a special framed copy of that week’s magazine. And that’s it.
Continue ReadingSix killer tips to erase time-sucks from your day (for historians)
Oh! How much more productive I would be if I didn’t waste so much time reading productivity and time management blogs. You know, the ones with posts listing ‘killer tips’ and recommendations that you keep a time log? The ones that command you to chart your ‘energy’, use the Pomodoro technique, go to bed earlier,
Continue ReadingHow I ended up presenting TV (the circuitous answer)
Or, an alternative title could be: ‘how I wanted to learn Latin but ended up with King Alfred (left) instead.’ On Friday night my fellow curators at Historic Royal Palaces and I went out for a cocktail (or 2). We started talking about the hardest jobs we’d ever done. Among my colleagues, I was surprised
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