Review: Mary Shelley – The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein, Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere
Her mother, the pioneer radical and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, died after giving birth to her...
Read MorePosted by Stephen Longstaffe | May 14, 2018 | Arts, Museums
Her mother, the pioneer radical and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, died after giving birth to her...
Read MorePosted by Stephen Longstaffe | Mar 1, 2018 | Arts, Theatre
It’s hard to imagine a Dickens novel as a stage play. Aren’t they just interminable? Didn’t he...
Read MorePosted by Stephen Longstaffe | Dec 6, 2017 | Northern Soul writes..., The best place ever...
…I grew up in a suburb. So when I came to Lancaster I was gobsmacked. Lancaster was proper...
Read MorePosted by Stephen Longstaffe | Oct 27, 2017 | Books, Talks & Debates
Simon Schama is the kind of historian I want to be when I grow up. His books transport you to 17th...
Read MorePosted by Stephen Longstaffe | Aug 1, 2017 | Arts, Comedy
Before I went to Clown Fest I thought there were two kinds of clown: kiddy clowns and scary...
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