In 1487 Sir Henry Bodrugan, pursued for treason, leapt from a Cornish clifftop into a waiting boat and fled to France. Bodrugan's Leap, as the clifftop has come to be known, lies close to John Wilkinson's childhood home, and supplies the title for th...

An iconic work of Western art, Fragonard's "L'escarpolette", or "The Swing", is often reproduced and its famous foreground image of a young woman losing her slipper mid-swing is widely familiar. In "Reckitt's Blue", John Wilkinson explores that well-...