History and its impact on the cities and countryside of England. Architecture, medieval castles, cathedrals, churches. Georgian, Victorian and 20th century buildings, including country houses, railway termini and official buildings.
Art - paintings, sculptures and applied - as seen in the collections of the British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, National Gallery, Tate Britain, Wallace Collection and Courtauld Gallery. Specialities are Asian art, including Islamic and Indian and ancient civilisations, Mesopotamia, Assyria and Persia.
Contemporary. Multi-cultural London as seen in the streets and markets of Brixton, Brick Lane and Camden. Financial London – the City of London and Canary Wharf.

| 1979 – 1983 | International Journalism, Reuters News Agency, London and Bonn |
| 1983 – 2000 | Investment Banking, Schroders in London and Creditanstalt in Warsaw |
| From 2001 | Guiding in London and southern England |
| 2002 – 2003 | Blue Badge course |
| 2007 | Accredited lecturer for NADFAS (Decorative and Fine Arts) |
| 1976 - 1979 | BA (Honours) in History, University of Cambridge |
| 2001 - 2002 | MA History of Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, London |