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Friday, 3 July 2026
THREE LOCATIONS USED IN WUTHERING HEIGHTS 2026: YORKSHIRE
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In February of this year, a new version of Wuthering Heights hit the big screen. Starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Cathy and Hea...
Tuesday, 9 June 2026
LITERARY PUBS: THE KINGS HEAD, CHIGWELL
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Of all literary figures, Charles Dickens must surely win the prize for most pubs frequented. And some of these watering holes have formed t...
Saturday, 23 May 2026
A BISHOP'S BALLAD: THE HERMIT OF WARKWORTH
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Warkworth Castle , in the village of Warkworth, Northumberland, has an unusual feature in the form of a Hermitage, separated from the cast...
Wednesday, 29 April 2026
MORE BLING THAN BLEAK: INGATESTONE HALL, ESSEX/BLEAK HOUSE
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Charles Dickens’ novel Bleak House, which he started in 1852, concerns a lengthy legal dispute, namely the Chancery case of Jarndyce and Jar...
Wednesday, 8 April 2026
LONG LIVE THE PUB: MOTHER'S PRIDE/SOMERSET, WILTSHIRE AND BRISTOL
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In this day and age, with pubs going under at an alarming rate due to the vicious economic policies of the Labour Party, the release of the ...
Tuesday, 10 March 2026
LITERARY PUBS: THE EAGLE AND CHILD, OXFORD
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It is perhaps inevitable that a city such as Oxford, with its long tradition of higher learning and a plethora of colleges, would have wat...
Friday, 6 February 2026
LIFE WITH A MAN OF WORDS: ACCORDING TO QUEENEY, BERYL BAINBRIDGE/STREATHAM AND LICHFIELD
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Dr Samuel Johnson, who made his name as a writer, literary critic and lexicographer, grew up in Lichfield, but he spent much of his life in ...
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