Boudica Marginalia

Reading, writing, and other things

Category: Non-fiction: Art History

  • Stonehenge

    Welcome to my annual flurry of posts about books, where I realise I haven’t posted anything in months, have a few weeks of activity, and then get distracted by work…


  • The Sutton Hoo Helmet

    The Sutton Hoo Helmet is the second of the British Museum Objects in Focus series that I’ve read. There’s seven of them in the series so far. It is an…


  • Gothic Nightmares

    Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination is the book of an exhibition I never went to. I’ve had it for so long I’ve forgotten where I got it.…


  • The Queen of the Night

    The British Museum has a series of small books focusing on a single object. One of these is on my absolute favourite object in the museum, the Queen of the…


  • The Boy

    I have a new morning routine, inspired by the Miracle Morning, which involves spending 25 minutes reading while having breakfast before I leave for work. Most of my reading is…


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