Monthly Archives: June 2011

After my last post about getting a first job in museums or historic houses, my thoughts have been wandering back to my own experience… Here’s a magazine article I wrote at the time about my own early years of work … Continue reading

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I’m not exaggerating when I tell you that most days, someone, somewhere sends me an email asking how to get a job as a curator. So here are my suggestions for what to do … (NB these are my personal … Continue reading

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Overheard on the top deck of the No. 9 bus yesterday: ‘Mummy, London is the special-est place in the world, because it has so many kings and queens’. Well, we usually just have one at the time, little Jimmy, but … Continue reading

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This is the view from the teetering tip-top of the Swingletree mail coach as we trotted through the Suffolk lanes the other day.  I had the treat of a ride while researching Regency coach transport. John Parker, its owner and driver … Continue reading

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