Graham Watson

Jun 25, 2024 | thetimes.com | Graham Watson |Matt Lawton

Graham Watson first set his eyes on the Tour de France in 1977, after a five-year career as a society portrait photographer with the Lenare studio in Mayfair, London. The skills of portraiture allowed Watson to capture close-up images of racing cyclists with ease and his career as a cycling photographer took off almost immediately. His work first appeared in Cycling Weekly in 1977 and then spread to other English-language cycling magazines in the US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

Jun 25, 2024 | thetimes.com | Graham Watson |Matt Lawton

Graham Watson first set his eyes on the Tour de France in 1977, after a five-year career as a society portrait photographer with the Lenare studio in Mayfair, London. The skills of portraiture allowed Watson to capture close-up images of racing cyclists with ease and his career as a cycling photographer took off almost immediately. His work first appeared in Cycling Weekly in 1977 and then spread to other English-language cycling magazines in the US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

Jun 6, 2024 | waterstones.com | Graham Watson

Doomed survivor of a family of geniuses, Charlotte Brontë had a life as dramatic as Jane Eyre. Turning her back on her tragic past, she reinvented herself as an acclaimed writer, a mysterious celebrity and a passionate lover. Doing so meant burning many bridges, but her sudden death left her friends and admirers with more questions than answers.

Jun 1, 2024 | theguardian.com | Graham Watson

I was a member of the European parliament for South West England from 1994 to 2014, including a seven-year stint as leader of an alliance of Liberal and Democrat parties. A decade later, I am standing once again, this time as an Italian citizen in the constituency of North East Italy. I had not expected to be called out of a semi-retirement of teaching postgraduate students at the University of Toronto about the EU. In politics, however, when the call comes, one cannot say no.

May 28, 2024 | katrinarobinson.co.uk | Graham Watson |Katrina Robinson

Is Elizabeth Gaskell to Charlotte Brontë what James Boswell was to Dr Johnson? Did Brontë’s friend and biographer create, in The Life of Charlotte Brontë, the Charlotte we think we know now? The Invention of Charlotte Brontë: Her Last Years and The Scandal That Made Her, by Brontë specialist and literary historian Graham Watson, delves deep into the story behind Gaskell’s image-defining work. What follows is a gripping read of the biography’s hazardous path. It almost didn’t make it.