This week I am in the company of Sussex based engineer and racer, Neil Gough, reflecting on the excitement and drama of Goodwood’s 81st Motor Racing Member’s Meeting. The SF Trophy is always ...
The Amberley Museum’s themed weekends are always a cause for celebration with trains, cars, traction engines and buses as well as the superb interactive displays which so eloquently speak of th...
https://blog.tooveys.com/2024/04/old-cars-draw-the-crowds-at-the-amberley-museum/
My recent visit to SS. Great Britain in Bristol has reminded me of the remarkable love of history seeded in me by Joyce Sleight as a school boy. Joyce taught British Social, Economic and Politica...
https://blog.tooveys.com/2024/04/the-history-of-our-nation-told-through-objects/
The 19th century visionary and engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859), has been described as the nation’s most important engineer and was a key figure in Britain’s Industrial Revolutio...
https://blog.tooveys.com/2024/04/a-postcard-from-bristols-ss-great-britain/
Easter in the Christian tradition marks a pilgrimage from tragedy towards hope. These themes are given powerful voice in Graham Sutherland’s paintings of the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Chr...
https://blog.tooveys.com/2024/03/easter-a-pilgrimage-from-tragedy-to-hope/
The British artist Eduardo Paolozzi claimed to have embraced “…the iconography of the New World. The American magazine represented a catalogue of an exotic society, bountiful and generous, wh...
Leading architects, artisans and supporters gathered at St Michael and All Angels, Berwick, East Sussex for the launch of the 2024 Sussex Heritage Trust Awards. Sussex Heritage Trust Chairman, Da...
https://blog.tooveys.com/2024/03/sussex-heritage-trust-2024-awards-launched-at-berwick/
Over millennia jewellery has held a fascination for humankind bringing together timeless gems, the skill of the craftsman and the beauty of the jewel. Jewellery often marks important moments in o...
https://blog.tooveys.com/2024/03/the-house-of-boucheron-and-the-art-deco/
A breathtaking array of portraits by the avantgarde artist John Singer Sargent has just gone on show at Tate Britain. John Singer Sargent was the most successful society portrait painter of the B...
https://blog.tooveys.com/2024/02/sargent-and-fashion-at-tate-britain/
Tea is very important in our home especially for my wife. No tea no Teresa in the mornings – well a girl must have standards. It is said that the first tea shop in England was opened in 1706 by...
https://blog.tooveys.com/2024/02/the-importance-of-tea-in-the-life-of-the-nation/