WG161
Whispering Gallery Issue 161 / WG161
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Date and Pages
[edit | edit source]- March 2024, 52 A4 Pages (including Covers)
Editor
[edit | edit source]Front Cover
[edit | edit source]- Idealized Portrait of a Lady (Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci as Nymph). Sandro Botticelli. c. 1480-85. Credit: Bridgeman Images.
Inside Front Cover
[edit | edit source]- Calligraphy by Monica Murray - ROS 8
Back Cover
[edit | edit source]- Edward Fiennes de Clinton, later 1st Earl of Lincoln, Anonymous, 1562. Copyright: Ashmolean Museum/Bridgeman Images.
Articles
[edit | edit source]- 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
- Men’s Fashion in the 16th Century - Ineke de Jong
- A Dunnett Lexicon - Minatory, Retiary, Predicant - 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 - 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
[edit | edit source]- IDDD 2023 Photo Montage
Ephemera
[edit | edit source]- Historical Writers Association Crowns Evening 2023 - Betty Moxon
- Pentlands Book Festival 2023 - Lesley Burnie
Letters
[edit | edit source]Belgium
[edit | edit source]- Margaret du Maine-Simpson - Talking Point
Canada
[edit | edit source]- Tina Dallas - Talking Point
England
[edit | edit source]- Sandra Hall - Talking Point
USA
[edit | edit source]- Auralee Childs - Talking Point
- Colleen Kubinski - Talking Point
Forthcoming Events
[edit | edit source]- Dunnett Weekend Friday 26th-Sunday 28th April 2024
- Oxford Day, Wolfson College, 22 June 2024
Advertisements
[edit | edit source]- Notecards inspired by the Lymond Chronicles - DDS Shop
- Watch Guy Gavriel Kay's keynote speech at 2023 Centenary Gathering: http://tinyurl.com/WG161-2
- Volunteer coordinator needed