Editing WG161

==Whispering Gallery Issue 161 / WG161 ==

[[File:WG161.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Front Cover, Whispering Gallery 161]]

===Date and Pages===
* March 2024, 52 A4 Pages (including Covers)

===Editor===
* [[Suzanne McNeill]]

==Front Cover==
* Idealized Portrait of a Lady (Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci as Nymph). Sandro Botticelli. c. 1480-85.  Credit: Bridgeman Images.

==Inside Front Cover==
* [[Calligraphy | Calligraphy]] by Monica Murray - ROS 8

==Back Cover==
* Edward Fiennes de Clinton, later 1st Earl of Lincoln, Anonymous, 1562. Copyright: Ashmolean Museum/Bridgeman Images.

==Articles== 
* [[A View from the Wynds]] - [[Suzanne McNeill]]
* [[The Chairman’s Column]] - [[Simon Hedges]]
* [[Trustees' Notice Board]] - [[Jill Harrison]], [[Lisa Hopkins]], [[Deborah Conway Read]]
* Members' Page
* [[Helping Out]]... with Membership Administration - Val Asker, Jenny Smith
* [[Tribute Book]] - Jane Buccleuch
* The [[Case for Primaflora]] - Pt 1 of 3 - Alicia Rasley
* [[Among the archives ...]] - Dunnett as (Non)cook - Heather Jacobson
* [[Historical Fiction and the Historian]]: Researching the Characters of the Auld Alliance - Dr. Bryony Coombs
* [[Seeing Doubley: Johnson Johnson's Bifocals]] - Lisa Hopkins
* The [[Silver Rosebush]] - Christine Deasey
* [[Fashion in the 16th Century | Men’s Fashion in the 16th Century]] - Ineke de Jong
* [[A Dunnett Lexicon]] - Minatory, Retiary, Predicant - [[WG Authors | Carole Richardson]]
* [[There is a Season ...]] - Pt 1 of 4, Spring - Janet Kebbell
* [[Reading the Lymond Chronicles]] - An overview - Ian Bristow
* [[Library-sampling and the Value of Collections]] - [[Dorothy Dunnett]] - [[NLS Dunnett Archive Contents | The Dunnett Archive]]. Also see [[Talks and Interviews by Dorothy Dunnett]]
* [[Lymond Country]] – Part 3 of 5, Solway Moss - Carmel Macpherson
* [[Talking Point]] - Think of your three favourite moments from ''Niccolò Rising'' - why do you love them?
* [[That’s Relevant!]] - Dyrhólaey, Stephanie Anderson; Nicholas the Hermit, Catherine Arthur; The Thread of the Mistar, Diana Crane
* [[A Letter from Dorothy Dunnett]] to Karen Borgnes (Mooney)
* [[A Close Read]] - ''The Game of Kings'', Pt 1 Ch 5.2 - Scott Richardson

==Illustrations and Photos==
* IDDD 2023 Photo Montage

==Ephemera==
* Historical Writers Association Crowns Evening 2023 - Betty Moxon
* Pentlands Book Festival 2023 - Lesley Burnie

==Letters==

===Belgium===
* Margaret du Maine-Simpson - Talking Point

===Canada===
* Tina Dallas - Talking Point

===England===
* Sandra Hall - Talking Point

===USA===
* Auralee Childs - Talking Point
* Colleen Kubinski - Talking Point

==Forthcoming Events==
* Dunnett Weekend Friday 26th-Sunday 28th April 2024
* Oxford Day, Wolfson College, 22 June 2024

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