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London Viewpoints Now On Spotify
A series of 15 'viewpoints' exploring weird and wonderful London history are now available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Expect...
Sep 28, 20211 min read
Named as Winner of Church Monuments Essay Prize
My essay 'The Elizabethan and Jacobean Monuments in Gonville and Caius College Chapel, Cambridge' has won the Church Monuments Society...
Sep 13, 20211 min read
1 Corinthians 12 Exhibition now online at Visual Commentary on Scripture
My exhibition on 1 Corinthians 12:12–31 for the Visual Commentary on Scripture is now online, including Louise Bourgeois, Give or Take...
Sep 1, 20211 min read
Grünewald and Hindemith at BBC Proms, Radio 3
I spoke about Matthias Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece (c.1515) in the prom interval on BBC Radio 3 on 12th August, the inspiration...
Aug 13, 20211 min read
Prattling Pictures in June Apollo and Online
My article on 'Talking Pictures', which appeared in the June issue of Apollo magazine, is now online: https://www.apollo-magazine.com/eli...
Jul 16, 20211 min read
Interview with Gonville and Caius College
Dr Christina Faraday talks about her passion for communication through art, her Tudor research, admissions – and dinosaurs, in this...
Jun 10, 20211 min read
Launch of PlaceCloud Subscription Platform
I am delighted to be one of PlaceCloud app's experts in its new incarnation. Subscribe for just £2.99 per month to listen to geo-located...
Jun 7, 20211 min read
Poem 'Relics: A Kitchen in Assisi' published in Franciscan
My poem 'Relics: A Kitchen in Assisi' has been published in the May issue of Franciscan, the Journal of the Society of St Francis:...
May 3, 20211 min read
Heirs of All Eternity: New Discoveries in Tudor Portraiture Essay for Philip Mould Exhibition
My essay 'Heirs of All Eternity: New Discoveries in Tudor Portraiture' has been published online to coincide with the Philip Mould & Co...
Apr 27, 20211 min read
Talking Tudors Podcast - Tudor Art
Natalie Grueninger talks all things Tudor art with Dr Christina Faraday in episode 103 of Talking Tudors podcast. Listen here:...
Apr 2, 20211 min read
Art on the Radio - Article for Apollo Magazine
Read my article about art on the radio for Apollo Magazine here, featuring Jerry Brotton's series of The Essay, 'Blood and Bronze' for...
Mar 22, 20211 min read
Article about V&A Proposals in The Telegraph
My article about the fatally-flawed proposals for rearranging the V&A's curatorial and conservation departments is out in the Telegraph:...
Mar 4, 20211 min read
Henry VIII'S Crown Jewels?
I wrote about the recent discovery of a gold figure of Henry VI in a field in the Midlands for Apollo Magazine, article online now:...
Feb 4, 20211 min read
Stitches in Time - Review in January Apollo
My review of Marking Time: Objects, People and their Lives, 1500-1800, ed. Ed Town and Angela McShane (Yale University Press, 2020) is...
Jan 25, 20211 min read
Talking Tudors Podcast: Tudor Neuroscience
Last week I recorded an episode of the podcast Talking Tudors with Natalie Grueninger, on 'Tudor Neuroscience' or what Tudor people...
Dec 3, 20201 min read
Interview for Evening Standard Podcast on the Mary Wollstonecraft Sculpture
I gave an interview to The Leader, the Evening Standard Podcast, on the new sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft by Maggi Hambling. Catch up...
Nov 12, 20201 min read
Article on threatened Royal College of Physicians rare books sale in Apollo Magazine
The Royal College of Physicians is considering proposals to sell off its superb collection of rare books to plug a funding hole. I wrote...
Oct 29, 20201 min read
Lively Limnings in British Art Studies Journal
My article 'Lively Limning: Presence in Portrait Miniatures and John White's Limnings of the New World' was published in the September...
Oct 29, 20201 min read
Two Newly-Discovered Flap Engravings by Thomas Gemini in Print Quarterly
My article 'Two Newly-Discovered Flap Engravings by Thomas Gemini' was published in the September edition of Print Quarterly, vol XXXVII,...
Oct 29, 20201 min read
Fashioning the Virgin Queen
Elizabeth I was meant to be a boy; how did artists deal with representing this unprecedented monarch? Read my take on portraits of...
Aug 20, 20201 min read
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