Updated 22 August 2024: Just to highlight this blog post is still a work-in-progress, published early in draft form for my MA history...

View of the front of the old Haymarket Theatre, taken down in 1821, by unknown artist (1820 Etching). Image source: © The Trustees of...

Fleetwood Street, Stoke Newington, London N16 (Photographed June 2024 © Breda Corish) In 2023, I was asked to give a local history talk...

How did James & Elizabeth Butler, the 12th Earl and Countess of Ormond first rise to the positions of Viceroy and Vicereine of Ireland?

What connected Ireland's great dynastic Norman family, the Butlers, with the most fashionable urban development in 17th-century London?