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Northumberland: Alnwick and The Amble Inn – Travel Review
By Clare Jenkins, August, 2023 Question: what do Harry Hotspur, Harry Potter, Tootles the Taxi and taxidermy have in common? ... -
Northumberland: Lindisfarne & Bamburgh Castle – Travel Review
By Clare Jenkins, July 2023 It’s undeniably one of the great British railway coastlines. North of Newcastle, passing Morpeth, Alnwick, ... -
Ramsgate & Pegwell Bay Hotel – Review
By Clare Jenkins, June 2023 If Ramsgate had its own visitors’ book, it would make impressive reading. Jane Austen visited ... -
How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel by Kate Jackson – Review
By Clare Jenkins One day in St Mary Mead, a murder is announced which puts the cat among the pigeons. ... -
Margate & The Walpole Bay Hotel – Review
By Clare Jenkins, June 2023 The artist Tracey Emin is passionate about her hometown of Margate. “I just love it ... -
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women by Victoria Smith – Review
By Clare Jenkins Thirty years ago, way before LGBTQI+ politics became A Thing, I did an MA in Women’s Studies. ... -
Broadstairs in Kent, Royal Albion Hotel and The Yarrow – Review
By Clare Jenkins, May 2023 Charles Dickens loved Broadstairs. After visiting the Kent resort for the first time in 1837, ... -
Edinburgh City, Crescent House Hotel & Malmaison – Travel Review
By Clare Jenkins, May 2023 There are many different sides to Edinburgh. There’s the Royal Mile side, all bagpipers, kilts ... -
Home, I’m Darling – Review – Sheffield Lyceum Theatre
By Clare Jenkins, April 2023 Back in 1951, a decade before Betty Friedan’s ground-breaking feminist tract The Feminine Mystique, the ... -
Edinburgh By Sea: Leith, Fingal & Malmaison – Travel Review
By Clare Jenkins, April 2023 Who would have guessed that HM the Queen had such suburban tastes? Floral bedroom curtains, ... -
Dunwich, Southwold, Aldeburgh & Dingle Marsh Barns – A Suffolk Travel Review
By Clare Jenkins, March 2023 The Suffolk village of Dunwich features in a surprising number of stories about murder, ... -
Second City by Richard Vinen – Review
By Clare Jenkins The theatre critic Kenneth Tynan once described his home town of Birmingham as “the ugliest city in ...
