I read a book on Shakespeare every year. We know very little about the man, which paradoxically only encourages the industry of Shakespeare writing as writers have free rein to imagine new versions of him and write about him in ways that are as creative as they are […]
Diary of a Tourist Guide:
Archives for February 2018
THE BLOOMBERG BUILDING AND MITHRAIC MUSEUM
For a billionaire Michael Bloomberg seems a pretty decent bloke with a strong sense of what he should do with his wealth. He is a New York financier who saw a gap in the market in the 1980s and set up the company which provides financial data. He is now worth somewhere north of $50 […]
DARK AND SATANIC OR GREEN AND PLEASANT
William Blake was a born and bred Londoner. Baptised at the beautiful St James’s Church, Piccadilly, he is buried with the other non-conformists at Bunhill Fields opposite Wesley’s Chapel and commemorated with a fine bust by Jacob Epstein […]