Jacky Colliss Harvey

Walking Pepys's London brings to life the world of Samuel Pepys with five walks through London. Samuel Pepys, the seventeenth century's best-known diarist, walked around London for miles, chronicling these walks in his diary. He made the two-and-a-half-mile trek to Whitehall from his house near the Tower of London on an almost daily basis. These streets, where many of his...

The mere mention of red hair or red-headedness conjures vivid associations. Stereotypes range from the fun-loving scatterbrain Lucille Ball to the largely mythologised Viking savage. There are the fiery-tempered shrews or penitent prostitutes (Mary Magdalene is almost always depicted as a redhead), and comic foils and long-suffering sidekicks, like Danny Partridge (The Partridge Family), Ron Weasley (Harry Potter), Jimmy Olsen...