Florence Heath
Florence Heath is the author of Endangered: Is There Hope for the Natural History Museum? (New Culture Forum) She tweets at @flsheath
A miserable specimen
The Natural History Museum seems to have lost faith in the ability of children to understand new concepts and facts
This vision glorious
Let us allow the glory of Easter to touch our daily lives
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
The establishment prefers distractions to solutions
Politicians discuss irrelevances rather than confronting the obvious
Taking Pride
If sexual orientation is not a choice and therefore nothing to be ashamed of, then it can be nothing to be proud of either
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
Plain Janeites
For all their admirable dedication, keepers of the Austen flame cannot be so protective
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Their transition too (w/ Emma B)
Children are not secondary characters in their parents’ story
Keystones of Britain’s history
Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture