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Ulysses Temper is a British soldier in Italy during the Second World War. There he befriends art historian Evelyn Skinner, and helps her res...

I've just received my copy of  Doctor Who Chronicles: 1965  from the splendid lot that make Doctor Who Magazine . Among the delights to ...

The latest special edition of Doctor Who Magazine is devoted to production design . Among the delights are some things by me: Dr Who and the...

On twitter a few weeks ago, a friend mentioned that Tristan de Vere Cole, director of 1968 Doctor Who story The Wheel in Space ,   was no...

I'm struggling a bit with reading at the moment - one day last week I started four different books and couldn't hold my concentra...

Vincent Van Gogh was born on this day in 1853, and this evening my clever friend Emily Cook at Doctor Who Magazine has organised a special...

Seurat and the Science of Painting by William Innes Homer (1964) At the turn of the 20th century, work by Max Planck on the odd pro...

Here's an interview with me and Christel Dee about our book, Doctor Who - The Women Who Lived , conducted at Forbidden Planet in London...

“Lear’s great poems and songs are not about his life – they float free. But their gaiety and sadness feel even keener when set against the...

That splendid lot at BBC Studios have produced this lovely video telling the story of Doctor Who's granddaughter, Susan Foreman. Th...

It has been an eventful week, with the Dr giving birth to a beautiful baby girl who, online, we'll call Lady Vader. Given our history...

Out this week in shops is the The Art of Doctor Who - the latest sumptuous special edition from Doctor Who Magazine , "celebrating s...

M'colleague Web of Evil shared with me the wonder that is Vision On - A Book Of Nonsense With Some Sense In It , an annual tied in t...

Michael Holroyd's 600-page biography of the painter Augustus John (1878-1861) is a dense, detailed work that's taken me months to g...

Very busy with new house and work stuff, but here's the talk I gave on 10 February at the National Portrait Gallery ... Next month, a 29...