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 The Walled-Up Woman: Live Performance at the ExtremesWhat if the future of performance isn’t on a screen? What if live performance needs to concentrate on the local?  As cities empty, what if the...

  Lady Mary 'zoomed' for the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution at 4pm on 14th March and via Chawton House, Hampshire  for the Adventurous Eighteenth Century Wives Conference on 14th and...

The picture is of Lady Mary in Turkish dress, which she wore in Constantinople. She describes it one of her many letters to her sister, the Countess of Mar, who was exiled in Paris - having married a ...

I attended this fascinating workshop on the basis that in a time of hand sewing, Tudor garments had developed from Medieval principles. Pictures from both periods show layering against temperatures w...

Timeliness of both solo shows? Yes. Accidental but considerable - and a bit strange.  I had wanted to write a performance about Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ever since I reread her letters with a view t...