I was rather touched by this letter in the Times today, though I'm not sure I think it necessary to join the campaign. For one thing, my rather vague recollection is that when the Victorians were restoring the charnel house that is St Peter ad Vincula in 1876, they dug up a few hundred skeletons (can't find a reference for that number, but it was ( Read more... )

These people... I like the idea, but I don't think I could cope with the 30 cm by 40 cm hole...

There was a letter in today's Daily Telegraph (I read a lot of newspapers, it's my job) about a possible model for Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair. What grabbed me was not so much the account of Tizzie Reviss's Satanic Majesty costume, yachting trips, love life and financial arrangements, fascinating as these clearly were, but the detail that in her ( Read more... )