Telling history like it is

A conversation with Professor Corinne Fowler of the University of Leicester, and Director of ‘Colonial Countryside: National Trust Houses Reinterpreted’

Spring

Like a firework captured as it falls to earth, this Willow glowed in the sunlight while a gusty breeze up high swirled the clouds on one of those dreamy, breezy early Spring days. Bliss.

The Pug

Lockdown walks are all about trying to create an element of surprise, or novelty; a reason to stop and take in something fresh and stimulate the senses. This one certainly did!

The Dark Months Eighteen

As heaving dark grey clouds yawn open, light hits yellow lichen on a wooden rail, causing colour to ripple in intense succession before giving way to hope and renewal.

Home

The time is right to unravel the meaning of ‘home’ for our changing times. Why, and how?

The Dark Months Seventeen

As we reach the shortest day of the year with the Winter Solstice, it seems all hope is extinguished. But is it really?

The Dark Months Sixteen

When the mornings are dark, and the evenings too, and in between is but a blurry dark blue, escape becomes all important.

The Dark Months Fifteen

Ritual, habit, practical and deliberate actions, create a soothing sense that things can be different.

The Dark Months Fourteen

Imagine the world from a different vantage, and you’ll see its falsehoods and lies clearly. Or will you?

The Dark Months Twelve

Despite discouragement, we can sometimes see things for the better, and in that, we are the magic. This is the twelfth in the series ‘The Dark Months’.