It sits on the edge of the Northumbrian coast, an intermittent island joined twice a day to the mainland by the tides, before retreating into isolation once more. It lies low, save for a plug of rock on the eastern side, on which sits a small, sixteenth-century castle. The island is viewable down much ofRead More| Luke McKernan
It sits on the edge of the Northumbrian coast, an intermittent island joined twice a day to the mainland by the tides, before retreating into isolation once more. It lies low, save for a plug of ro…| Luke McKernan
Long, long ago, when at school, I was presented with a passage from a novel to assess. I was sixteen, maybe, in an English class. We must have been given many such passages from books and told to write a short essay on them. I can vaguely remember the text book, which had several suchRead More| Luke McKernan
Here’s a major thing. Film Atlas is an online encyclopedia of film formats. Launched to the public last month, it is a collaboration between the International Federation of Film Archives (FIA…| Luke McKernan
I have bought myself a chess set. I have several chess sets already, but I spotted this one, or one like it, among the remarkable collection of knick-knackery in the Limehouse Library Hotel in Lond…| Luke McKernan
One of my favourite lines in all film literature is in a booklet note for the National Film Theatre, possibly in the early 1990s. The NFT was showing what I think was Rookery Nook, a British title …| Luke McKernan
It was when I was undertaking some family history research, twenty-five or more years ago, when many genealogical resources first began to appear online, that I came across Thomas Pooley. There wer…| Luke McKernan
One of the great pleasures, and privileges, of living in this corner of north Kent is the woodland. Near to where I live, there are three interconnected woods: Ashenbank, Shorne Wood and Cobham Woo…| Luke McKernan
The news that Mike Ratledge has died knocks away another of the props on which my formative years were built. Ratledge was a founder member and keyboard player for the Soft Machine, a man whose fur…| Luke McKernan
I was glancing through the statistics page of my Flickr account the other day when I noticed that I had just passed two million views. That feels like quite something for someone with limited photo…| Luke McKernan
In Woody Allen’s 1986 film Hannah and Her Sisters there’s a scene where Mickey, a despairing television writer trying to seek a meaning in life (played by Allen, inevitably) is walking …| Luke McKernan
