by Clare Flynn | Sep 28, 2016
Thanks to the Sussex Archaeological Society I was lucky enough to have a tour of Compton Place here in Eastbourne. The house and grounds are owned by the Duke of Devonshire and for the past sixty years have been leased to a ladies’ finishing school which since...
by Clare Flynn | Mar 6, 2015
I’ve just spent a couple of days in Amsterdam. It was an unplanned, last minute, impromptu reaction to reading The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton – my book club’s choice for this month. You can read my Goodreads review here. I’ve visited Amsterdam loads of...
by Clare Flynn | Feb 24, 2015
Sorry about the rather gruesome looking set of choppers, but I visited the British Dental Museum the other day. I’d been really looking forward to it – I needed to get a feel for what having false teeth would have been like in the late nineteenth century....
by Clare Flynn | Dec 3, 2014
I was lucky enough to receive an impromptu invitation to a private view of the Pérez Símon exhibition, ‘A Victorian Obsession’, at Leighton House in Kensington this week. I’d been planning to go to the exhibition anyway (and will probably go again)...
by Clare Flynn | Apr 23, 2013
What a fantastic and moving exhibition is Life and Death in Pompei and Herculaneum at the British Museum. I’ve been to Pompei (but not to Herculaneum) and thought it would offer little new, but this proved to be an incredible insight into everyday life in the...
