a blue plaque for Josephine Tey?
A new article in the Press & Journal about Josephine Tey, highlighting the changes at the site of her family’s shop in Castle Street in Inverness – and suggesting the idea of a blue plaque for Tey…
A new article in the Press & Journal about Josephine Tey, highlighting the changes at the site of her family’s shop in Castle Street in Inverness – and suggesting the idea of a blue plaque for Tey…
I’ve written about ‘MEMD’ on this blog before, and the other week journalist Susy Macaulay contacted me about a piece she was writing about ‘Herself’. Photographer Mary Ethel Muir Donaldson’s evocative pictures of the Highlands were featured in an article in the Press & Journal at the weekend. You can read the article online here: … More MEMD – new article and photographs
There are new plans for the site of Josephine Tey’s family shop on Castle Street. In my biography of Josephine Tey, I describe how her father Colin owned a fruit shop on Castle Street in Inverness, and also rented out flats above the shop. Here on this blog, I’ve talked before about what has happened … More Josephine Tey’s Castle Street
While museums and archives are closed due to the coronavirus, many of them are posting interesting content online. I regularly use archives and museums to research my writing, both locally in the Highlands and further afield, and I noticed that this week on Facebook IMAG are highlighting their MEM Donaldson photography collection. You can follow … More MEM Donaldson: MEMD Herself
I have an article in the new issue of Northwords Now, which is out now and free to read online: https://www.northwordsnow.co.uk/ Northwords Now is usually available both online and in a print version: for this issue, they have focused on updating their website, where you can also check out several back issues, and their author … More Northwords Now new issue