The journey through letters, stamps, and envelopes in Britain begins in this article with the novelist Jane Austen. Austen is a suitable starting point because she mentions letters many times in her novels. and she was a popular novelist in her own lifetime, although she published her novels anonymously. She was born in 1775 and…

This is taking a peek at our Japan trip and the extensive stocktake process for Flying Twigs, and what it entailed! We did a stocktake and it took days and days – and days. With four hundred different card designs it meant laying all the cards out and checking every one. I shudder to think…

The Artist Konstantin Somov was born in 1869 in Saint Petersburg, Russia to an educated and wealthy family. His father was the senior curator at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, then the capital of Russia. So the young Somov saw art all around when he was young, and from a young age he wanted…