City secrets: outsider art and lost rooms
A city of lost rooms: where Jewish scholars vanish, artist seers battle their obsessions and twisted worlds thrive.
Plague and coronavirus: Bring out your dead, then it’s revolution time
The third and final instalment exploring today’s coronavirus crisis and comparing it with the historical documentary fiction of Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year.
The hangman’s mementos
A mysterious pair of boots and one of England’s most prolific hangman create an intriguing Glasgow mystery.
London plague 1665 vs coronavirus 2020: city lockdown and streets of suffering
We explore more similarities and differences between the coronavirus of 2020 and the plague of 17th century London. City lockdown, silence and noise in the streets, wild rumours and pandemic inequality.
London plague 1665 vs coronavirus 2020: early days and lockdown
Contagion, fear, fake news and quackery. There are striking similarities between today’s crisis and the Great Plague of London centuries ago. Has anything changed?
Eulogy to my mother
We had a complicated relationship but she was also a unique and fascinating character.
The day the Blue Rebels rose-up
The day the Blue Rebels rose-up and led a climate protest for the rising seas.
Gods, ruins and street life: photos from 2019
From Kolkata streets to the Shropshire hills, from watching gods to warships: a selection of my photos taken during 2019.
The wonderful folklore of Bhutan
Crazy monks, strange creatures roaming the mountains, thunder dragons, flying gurus, and penis art. Bhutan is a little bit special and so is its folklore.
Unbuilt Glasgow: a city nearly lost
Can a city make you sad and die young? Can a city destroy itself? How Glasgow’s unique mysterious curse was born from a city nearly lost.
The church of bones and lost souls
In the old streets of Naples, there’s a small church of bones, mystery and cult worship – an offshoot of the Neapolitan Cult of the Dead.
