Christina J Faraday

I wrote about three exciting recent discoveries of Tudor decorative arts and wall paintings for Apollo Magazine:...

I have been shortlisted in the Arts and Entertainment Category for the 2021 British Journalism Awards. Winners will be announced on 8th...

I wrote about the Aztec origins of John Dee's scrying glass, and other global Tudor objects, for Apollo Magazine. Read online:...

I have been quoted in a New York Times article discussing the effects of Covid on Britain's museum sector. The article refers to a...

A series of 15 'viewpoints' exploring weird and wonderful London history are now available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Expect...

My essay 'The Elizabethan and Jacobean Monuments in Gonville and Caius College Chapel, Cambridge' has won the Church Monuments Society...

My exhibition on 1 Corinthians 12:12–31 for the Visual Commentary on Scripture is now online, including Louise Bourgeois, Give or Take...

I spoke about Matthias Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece (c.1515) in the prom interval on BBC Radio 3 on 12th August, the inspiration...

My article on 'Talking Pictures', which appeared in the June issue of Apollo magazine, is now online: https://www.apollo-magazine.com/eli...

Dr Christina Faraday talks about her passion for communication through art, her Tudor research, admissions – and dinosaurs, in this...

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...

My poem 'Relics: A Kitchen in Assisi' has been published in the May issue of Franciscan, the Journal of the Society of St Francis:...

My essay 'Heirs of All Eternity: New Discoveries in Tudor Portraiture' has been published online to coincide with the Philip Mould & Co...

Natalie Grueninger talks all things Tudor art with Dr Christina Faraday in episode 103 of Talking Tudors podcast. Listen here:...

Read my article about art on the radio for Apollo Magazine here, featuring Jerry Brotton's series of The Essay, 'Blood and Bronze' for...

My article about the fatally-flawed proposals for rearranging the V&A's curatorial and conservation departments is out in the Telegraph:...

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:...

My review of Marking Time: Objects, People and their Lives, 1500-1800, ed. Ed Town and Angela McShane (Yale University Press, 2020) is...

Last week I recorded an episode of the podcast Talking Tudors with Natalie Grueninger, on 'Tudor Neuroscience' or what Tudor people...

I gave an interview to The Leader, the Evening Standard Podcast, on the new sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft by Maggi Hambling. Catch up...