…How did I not know that Robert Greene was born in Norwich??? I was looking for information about Norwich's churches, and someone mentioned in passing that he was baptized in St. George's, Tombland. That was one of the churches I visited in 2014! The people there were very nice to the weird American who wanted to know if the angels on the roof ( Read more... )

A brief clip from an upcoming one-hour episode hosted by Dr. Janina Ramirez ( Read more... )

Medieval graffiti brings a new understanding of the past by Matthew Champion
https://aeon.co/essays/medieval-graffiti-brings-a-new-understanding-of-the-past

Score one more for the OUP blog:

http://blog.oup.com/2013/08/beatles-she-loves-you-23-august-1963/

The choice of the words “yeah, yeah, yeah” also carried an obvious coded ideological meaning for younger fans. When the songwriters returned to ( Read more... )

I find this story weirdly fascinating and a bit sad, somehow:

Thousands of bodies under Bath Abbey threaten its stability

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-23685801

So Jane Austen is set to become the face of the ten-pound note in 2017 or so ( Read more... )

So I picked up a novel at the bookstore today; I've forgotten the title already but it had something to do with vintage clothing. Anyway, it's supposed to be set in London, but on the first page a character talks about someone's bangs rather than her fringe, and it was like a needle scratching a record. The author is English, so I suspect that this ( Read more... )

Sometimes I think Twitter is bad for my mental state: namely, when people are doing things like tweeting about how awesome the Globe's Richard III is, and how we should totally go, which is just MEAN, because I *would* totally go if I could ( Read more... )

no, self, you are not allowed to cry at episodes of Antiques Roadshow just because they are set in Norwich. No, not even if they have an adorable schoolboy bringing in a letter from Nelson with a ps from Emma, Lady Hamilton. Not even if the schoolboy is accompanied by his teacher. No ( Read more... )

Oh, these photos. I find these especially haunting because I spent a semester (more like five and a half months) in Norwich, so I've actually been to some of those places. (Like the Bella Pasta on Red Lion street, because I think I ate in all of the Bella Pastas in the city center. It was frequently the only thing open when we wanted to go out for ( Read more... )