I was immediately interested when I saw the auction listing and accompanying photograph. It was a fine example of the artist’s work and attracted my attention. Yes, very much so. That interest,...
I had been hoping to acquire a painting by Edward Chalmers Leavitt (1842-1904) for the FRHS collection for some time, and when alerted by a long-time FRHS member and benefactor, just a few weeks...
It was a few weeks ago, while scanning the various lots of an online auction catalogue, that I noticed a pair of paintings. The artist’s hand certainly looked familiar – unmistakable, really, and...
Film history fascinates me. I was first introduced to silent film while in my teens via a 1980 Thames Television thirteen-episode documentary series called Hollywood: A Celebration of the American...
It was sometime in the early 1980s that I first saw the painting, hanging on the east wall of the east room of a house within walking distance of the FRHS – it was a lovely house, built in the back...
It is surprising what can accumulate between the pages and along the inside spine of an old ledger over the decades – dust, soot from coal or wood fires, long-dead insects (ideally), and the like....
Last Sunday morning – and a fine one at that – the FRHS hosted its Volunteer Brunch at the Venus de Milo Restaurant in Swansea, with seventy-four members of our volunteer staff in attendance. The...
