Today's Sunday Express Daily Express My new book 'Flyte Or Fancy' about Evelyn Waugh and the Cliftons has a fabulous double page feature... Lytham Hall Booths Supermarket Lytham St Annes Blackwell's Blackwell's Oxford Brookes Waterstones Foyles Bookshop Brideshead at 80!

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Christ Church Picture Gallery's next exhibition begins tomorrow and marks the 500th anniversary of the founding of Christ Church by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in 1525. Christ Church Picture Gallery 🧵(1/3)

Flyte of fancy? Was Brideshead Revisited's Sebastian Flyte inspired by the 'tearing mad' Harry Clifton? Truth is even stranger (and more dissolute) than fiction as David Slattery-Christy (@dscauthor) investigates bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-arti… (Free to view)

My new favourite tenor! Alexandra Coghlan Looking forward to seeing him in the role in Vienna later this year. Jonathan Tetelman, Prague Philharmonia, Carlo Rizzi – Puccini: Tosca, SC... youtu.be/q7CGkDmHGVQ?si… via YouTube

Happy Birthday J.K. Rowling a truly inspirational woman and spellbinding author.

Favourite quotations number 372: 'Work hard, do the best you can, don't lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.' Sir Noel Coward.

History of my Blackpool house. The Good Old Days, Madame Bluebell and a Hollywood actress! Alex Munro the comedian went on to become known as "Mr Llandudno" as he ran all the theatres there. #BBC #Llandudno #theatre #Blackpool

"This England, bound in with the triumphant sea, / Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege / Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, / With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds..." Richard II, Act II, Scene 1

Without their sacrifice, we would have nothing...

Another first: the official opening of our new Humanities Library

A journey to the former homes of some of the most inspiring British authors of the 19th and 20th Centuries - including Jane Austen, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, The Bronte Sisters, Rudyard Kipling and Agatha Christie. One you'll never forget! By David Slattery-Christy

Wonderful to finally visit Ivor Novello's former home in Cardiff and his statue in the city Wales Millennium Centre followed by lunch at The Ivy. Novello was asked to compose his first musical Glamorous Night over lunch Ivy Restaurant in 1935 for Theatre Royal Drury Lane so appropriate, Cheers Ivor!

A rare and beautiful glimpse of Oxford, England, around 100 years ago.

RIP Pauline Collins. I met her once very briefly and she was utterly charming. Forever Shirley Valentine. Condolences to her family.

The Soldier by Rupert Brooke If I should die, think only this of me:       That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be       In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,       Gave, once, her

Sad but true.