Adrian Barlow's blog

Whenever I think about   Henry V ,   I think about   Monmouth /Trefynwy , the Welsh border town where Henry was born and where (long ago) I ...

To Oxford, for the funeral of one of our oldest friends. The Crematorium Chapel is full to overflowing, for it is a sad fact that the younge...

  September 2022 has been a momentous month, and already it seems more than two weeks since my recent lecture tour to Germany. This was my s...

It’s a long time since I had any connection at all with GCSE English.* But I have been shocked by recent headlines in (for instance) the   T...

Alan Bennett’s books come in three sizes: large and fat, tall and slim, or squat and thin. His three volumes in the first category -   Writi...

Today, 18 th  May 2022, is  International Museum Day . I have been visiting museums for nearly seventy years, and International Museum Day (...