Miranda Kaufmann, whose articles I've linked to a couple of times, has a book called Black Tudors coming out in 2016 ( Read more... )

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/mission-launched-to-identify-thousands-of-bodies-buried-at-bedlam-burial-ground-9581126.html

A team of volunteers is calling on Londoners to help ( Read more... )

Via Twitter (@2nerdyhistgirls ( Read more... )

Apparently there's a giant fiberglass statue of wet-shirt Darcy* in the Serpentine, in Hyde Park. As advertising. For some TV network ( Read more... )

8,000 artefacts and rising: City dig pronounced the 'most important ever' in Londonhttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/8000-artefacts-and-rising-city-dig-pronounced-the-

I saw this on a TV news crawl a few days ago, but forgot to look into it until now:

"Black Death pit" unearthed by Crossrail projecthttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21784141Read more... )

Because avoidance of problems and actual tasks is fun, I accidentally read two of the three books I picked up yesterday afternoon from the library. This has resulted in very little sleep and fragmented dreams about time travel. (The second book I read, or reread, was The Graveyard Game by Kage Baker, because bookelfe was talking about the Company novels, ( Read more... )

London's Smallest Statue:
http://blackcablondon.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/cabbies-curios-londons-smallest-statue/

I've been reading more "light" nonfiction lately. This started over the summer, when I read Street Gang (...yup; title's still funny) and Fifth Avenue, 5 AM (about the making of Breakfast at Tiffany's). This is partly due to interest, and partly--I think--due to my feeling guilty about starting fiction while I'm supposed to be working. The ( Read more... )

I'd forgotten that I put together a "year in review" post about things I loved in 2011, and then never posted it because the list seemed so short, and I wanted to see if anything else came to mind. It wasn't a fantastic year for falling in love with new things, I guess. I read 38 books, which I know is barely a sneeze to some of you speed-readers ( Read more... )