Art, Words & Music

Under changing northern skies

Learning the art of stained glass from the neighbours

Jul 13 •

How the North Sea oil fields got their names

For as long as we can tell, we humans have named the places important to us in reference to features in the landscape — below that hill there, by this…

Jun 15 •

The surprising life of Samuel Laing of Papdale

How an unlikely Orcadian helped launch Viking fever in Victorian Britain

May 4 •

'A show of the world in every sense of the word'

Aasmund Olavsson Vinje's visit to Victorian Britain

Apr 12 •

The art of the wreck

J. M. W. Turner and Willem van de Velde the Younger

Mar 30 •

Weaving a new narrative in gold, silver and silk

Willem van de Velde the Elder and the Solebay Tapestries

Mar 23 •

Risking all for three casks of barley

Terje Vigen and the long shadow of the Skagerrak blockade

Feb 9 •

A tale of three Margarets through song

Three notable Margarets appear in the historical records of Northwestern Europe in the late-thirteen/early-fourteenth century: a mother and daughter…

Oct 26, 2024 •

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