I hope you've enjoyed my blog posts about my museum visits last month: the Museum of Bath Architecture and the Bath Postal Museum . No...

On Friday I travelled up to York to visit a couple of exhibitions, as well as take advantage of a short break with my husband, minus the fam...

Where has this year gone? In just over a month it will be Christmas again. I'm now a year older, but let's forget about that...:...

If you wonder what cotton wool and tights have to do with books and history then you may be surprised. But first... Saturday 12th Septem...

A quick post about a nationwide visiting opportunity this weekend, Heritage Open Days- UK . I mentioned this to a few writer friends and i...

This past week I finally got over to Derby and visited not only Pickford's House Museum of Georgian Life and Historic Costume, but also ...

Now that Serena's website is complete with it's own domain name, I'm considering a few visits to museums and galleries within t...

Saturday's 'Georgian' visits are going to be split up into two blog posts, as the Fashion Museum deserves a post by itself; and ...

Now I have to admit I do have a weakness for books on historical costume. If it's a full size beautifully illustrated book and the con...

Wednesday's have become the day I get on with writing my Nottinghamshire novella. (This was originally going to be written for the My ...

Well I would be if only we had some dry weather... The flooring in the office area is now down, and it does look very good- plus it will b...

Over the years I've read novels that have ranged from Roman to Medieval, and on to Victorian times- I've enjoyed some more than othe...

The Dictionary of Fashion History by Valerie Cumming , C W and P E Cunnington published by Berg (an imprint of Oxford International Publis...

I decided to blog about character behaviour after reading a couple of items on the Heroes and Heartbreakers website- they came up on Twitter...

Usually by Sunday night I know what I'm going to talk about on my Monday blog post, but nothing came to me yesterday... Now I have to ...

Once again I have some peace and quiet to write- the school half term holidays are over and I'm determined to get on with one of my long...

I'm certain that I will be finding inspiration from the new series 'At Home with the Georgians' that started last night (Thursda...

The world wide web has been a boon to writers of fiction or non-fiction- or both. We can now access documents and pictures that would have p...

My trip to Royal Tunbridge Wells reminded me of my years in college. I would often  meet up with my friends and (just like young women do n...