Recent Articles:
Peculiarly Yorkshire: New Year’s Traditions
The History of Elizabeth II in York
“Mummifying Alan” wins Royal Television Award
“Mummifying Alan” won Royal Television Award
Antique Antics: The Roadshow in York
Role at One&Other:
Writing about and covering events pertaining to antiques.
Favourite time of year:
The equinoxes.
Favourite travel destination:
The Royal Burgh of St Andrews, Fife.
Secret hideout in York:
Unwilling to disclose
Favourite things about living here:
The social and cultural advantages of a city with none of the gritty urban drawbacks. And the antiquity.
Best bars:
Too hard to chose: when it comes to Lady Liquor I am highly polygamous
Best insiders tip:
St Crux Church. Excellent tea and cake for nothing, amid stained glass and sepulchers of York’s late minor gentry.
Icon:
St George slaying the dragon
Best view of the city:
Starting to realize I’m not good with superlatives…
Favourite shop:
Oxfam bookshop on Low Petergate.
Best place to eat:
The Blue Bicycle.
This time next year I will be:
Undoubtedly more of a pessimist.
Top 5 bands:
I don’t think I can name five bands, and the ones I can I’d hesitate to call “top.”
Favourite era:
Regency.
If I was an animal I would be a:
human.
Over the course of my degenerate and wastrel life, I have acquired numerous vices, fixations and proclivities. One such of my dilettante dalliances is with antiques. As a retrospective and aesthetic person, this interest is perhaps not surprising. I hope to bring news of notable upcoming antique events and to write general articles about why antiques matter, and particularly how a consideration of the practices, customs and beauty of the past can improve our present.
