Looking Back

‘Ensueños de Amor’ (Dreams of Love)

An object previously described as “priceless” fetched P31,240,600 at auction last weekend. Small and fragile…

Treasures in Iloilo

Iloilo is one of my favorite cities. Last year it was declared by Unesco as…

Café Adriatico

Tempus fugit. Times flies indeed. Café Adriatico got its name from Macario Adriatico street on…

Momentary distractions

After the antics of the Vice President made international news recently, I looked up her…

Traitors

In 1989, I was given access to original documents on Andres Bonifacio from the collection…

Rizal’s unhappy wife

Josephine Bracken, Jose Rizal’s common-law wife, lived a short life, alternating between romance and tragedy.…

Philippine insurgent records

One of the largely untapped sources in the National Library of the Philippines is a…

‘Pearl of the Orient’

When people ask why I have not done research in the United States National Archives…

Repeating history

The six-year term granted elected presidents of the Philippines, is truly short for a good…

Objects of desire

Freud is my constant travel companion, a small stuffed doll who figures in my social…