Christina J Faraday

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...

The Royal College of Physicians is considering proposals to sell off its superb collection of rare books to plug a funding hole. I wrote...

My article 'Lively Limning: Presence in Portrait Miniatures and John White's Limnings of the New World' was published in the September...

My article 'Two Newly-Discovered Flap Engravings by Thomas Gemini' was published in the September edition of Print Quarterly, vol XXXVII,...

Elizabeth I was meant to be a boy; how did artists deal with representing this unprecedented monarch? Read my take on portraits of...

What did Tudor people think went on in the brain? What does a memory worm have to do with it? I'm delighted to be presenting my talk...

I recently wrote two posts for the Index of Evidence: https://www.indexofevidence.org/the-index The Index is a project based at the...

I wrote about indie game developer Joe Richardson's Rabelaisian computer game 'The Procession to Calvary' for Apollo Magazine last week,...

St John's College, Cambridge have put my latest ghost story, 'The Advent Visitor' (originally published in Ghosts & Scholars Magazine in...

On Wednesday 20th May at 10pm I will be on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking talking about the 400th anniversary of Peter Munday's sighting of...

I am honoured to have been included in Bob Frishman's latest bulletin for the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC)...

My article '“it seemeth to be the thing itsefe”: Directness and Intimacy in Nicholas Hilliard’s Portrait Miniatures' is now out in the...