The imperial road to Italy goes from Munich across the Tyrol, through Innsbruck and Bozen to Verona, over the mountains. Here the great processions passed as the emperors went South, or came home agai...
Stockport 6, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. When economic crisis struck at the end of 2008, in Russia people were collecting jokes and comic sketches in the attempt to laugh off the loomi...
I was reading The Times, the article by Mary Beard on examining the Cambridge essays. I am aware of this fundamental difference between the Russian and British education systems (although the Russian ...
Blackpool – The Walk of Faith, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. One of my Flickr contacts asked me if I felt dizzy, when making this photo. I didn’t in 2009, and neither did I i...
I‘m sitting in the living room with a laptop on my knees, listening to Rachmaninov’s Adagio Sostenuto from the Piano Concerto no. 2. There is a bookcase in front of me (which I assembled m...
When I write a “blog” here, it is about Arts and Culture, and the case of the late David Carradine fits both categories. I have seen him in a few of his B-movies before I watched his perfo...
Back in 2006, when I wrote Tudors, Me, and an Elusive Ghost, I explained why I chose to specialise in 16th c. history, or even more narrowly, in Tudor history: I chose to specialise in Tudor history b...
Update: There is a wonderful arrangement of The Lonely Shepherd by Zamfir and Nana Mouskouri that I wanted to share with you. Also this is one of the top posts on the blog, and I think it will be inte...
Creative Staff, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. Earlier this year someone asked me if I could kindly find them a book of William Turner paintings. I finally did find it, and that saw me si...
As we know, sometimes the greatest thoughts visit us in the bathroom. Following in the footsteps of Archimedes, I realised, while taking my shower, that giving advice to people like Susan Boyle or any...