As well as the lecture we also went to a gallery talk at the Open Evening - these are where a curator takes you around some objects of interest in a gallery for 45 minutes or so. The theme of this one tied in with the Shakespeare exhibition, and was in some ways an extension of the central room of the exhibition. Shakespeare set several of his ( Read more... )

The third (and last) episode of The Normans focused on their conquests in Italy - something I knew nothing about in advance (tho I had some vague idea that the King of Sicily had an English type name during the crusades). The time period covered was in parallel to the Norman Conquest of England, and took us from the early 11th Century past the ( Read more... )

No on-going series to watch this week, having finished A History of Christianity last week & also no more Pop Britannia recorded (disappointingly, coz we had another episode on disc but it turned out to be a repeat of one of the two we'd just seen). As we seem to have lined up half of the current BBC4 & BBCHD output to record (they're doing a ( Read more... )

J took the day off yesterday, so that we could go visit a museum :) We decided on the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, and actually managed to get ourselves up & out the house briskly enough to be in Cam before lunchtime! Before having our lunch we had a bit of a wander round the market (looking for a record stall J remembered from years ago, ( Read more... )