A Plague on Mr Pepys – review
The Great Plague has London in its grip. As the summer heat rises, red crosses mark the doors, wealthy citizens flee and only the poor remain to face the march of death.
Villa of Secrets – review
This is a dual time period story set on the island of Rhodes, partly in the present day and partly in WWII during the Nazi occupation of the island.
Corfe Castle
Last May I fell in love with the castle on Eilean Donan in Scotland so this month I visited Corfe Castle, in Dorset. It was a boiling hot day but the view of the village and surrounding landscape from the top of the hill was well worth the effort in the heat.
Money and House Ownership in 17th Century London
In the 17th century, ‘London’ was the City of London. Within its stone walls, it had grown into a bustling, overcrowded residential and commercial centre. As the population grew, space was at a premium, and storey was piled on storey. Tall, jettied timber houses overhung narrow streets. It was this pattern of building that made the Great Fire of London in 1666 so hard to control and led to the loss of 80% of the city.
