The History Girls: Eglantyne Jebb, The Woman Who Saved the Children, ...
The History Girls: Eglantyne Jebb, The Woman Who Saved the Children, ...: Ninety-five years ago this month, in May 1919, a remarkable woman called Eglantyne Jebb, and her sister, Dorothy Buxton,...
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THE SUMMER QUEEN: Finding Eleanor of Aquitaine by Elizabeth Chadwick.
In early June in the UK and July 1st in the USA, my novel THE SUMMER QUEEN is being published in paperback. It's the first in a contracted 3 book series about Eleanor of Aquitaine.I find it...
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A FORGOTTEN STAR by Eleanor Updale
Sometimes you only find out about your home town when someone comes to visit. So it was that on Monday I came across this grand, but somewhat neglected,Victorian memorial poking up from behind a tree...
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SUNLIGHT ON LEMON TERRACES AND THE SWEET SMELL OF FIGS – Dianne Hofmeyr
There’s a small corner of the Western Cape that could pass for being part of the Mediterranean. I grew up here with the sweet smell of figs and sticky pine-nut sap on my hands. Two huge old stone pines...
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The Naval Braid, by Louisa Young
The strangest thing happened. Our grandfather Bill lost an arm at Zeebrugge in 1918. He was a second lieutenant on guns during the attack on the Mole, where HMS Vindictive was held in place against the...
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The Keeper of the Locks by Clare Mulley
I love my family. Last year, for my birthday, among other things my mum gave me a well-wrapped cigar box celebrating the Brussels Grand Prix of 1910. It made a light parcel and did not rattle when I...
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Silent Noon by Trilby Kent
This month's guest is Trilby Kent, who has visited us before.Trilby Kent is a novelist, children’s author and journalist. She read History at Oxford University and completed a MSc in Social...
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A Painting for the Cabinet of Curiosities by Imogen Robertson
I have been broke, very broke or oh-my-god-they-are-coming-for-the-telly broke at various times in my life, and at those moments it’s tempting to look at your past spending and wonder what in hell you...
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To win one of five copies of Trilby Kent's new novel Silent Noon, just answer this question in the Comments section below:"Name a school story that engages with its historical context in a compelling...
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Historical First Aid – Mary Hoffman and Michelle Lovric
Something strange happened in May 2012. My friend and fellow History Girl Michelle Lovric told me she was going to miss a deadline. Now, she might not go as far as I have, in instructing her family to...
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'Be Not Ashamed You Were Bred In This Hospital. Own it.' - Lucy Inglis
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Foundling Museum, in Coram’s Fields, London. It is also the 275th anniversary of the Foundling Hospital, started by Thomas Coram to care for London’s...
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Women of the World - interview with Helen McCarthy by Eve Edwards
Eve EdwardsHelen McCarthyIn conversation...two women of the world. Helen McCarthy, Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, has just published the first account of the role of women in the...
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An exhibition of French WWI photographs - Katherine Langrish
I was lucky enough to be in Paris for a long weekend, last weekend, and we walked down to the Palais de Luxembourg. The formal gardens there are lovely - shady, full of statuary, with an ornamental...
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You may have listened to this before and after Maya Angelou's death last week, but it feels like a privilege every time. She offers a vision of history that it can be hard to remember. We were lucky...
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Richard Of York Gave/Gained Battles In Vain - Katherine Roberts
We're having that sort of year. Heavy showers and sunshine, sometimes both at once, which produce one of the most beautiful weather effects we have on earth - the rainbow. And every time I see a...
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All in the Wrist - a guest post by Frances Hardinge
We have a special extra guest today, Frances Hardinge.(If you have ever met Frances, you will know that the black hat is an invariable).This is what her official biography says about her:Frances...
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'Pluck this white rose' by Karen Maitland
Photographer: focusmycameraThe birthday flower for the 8th June is the white rose. Although seasonal flowers were used in Roman times to celebrate the festival days of the gods, the linking of specific...
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Recharge Your Writing Batteries!
by Caroline LawrenceIn her bestselling book The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron gives practical advice on how to open channels of creativity. One of her techniques is the Artist’s Date. She suggests that...
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The slow crows and the thin geese - Michelle Lovric
the scene of the crime - Harristown Bridge, County KildareThe poor - like love and crimes against love - tend to leave very little trace in history. The poor of the Irish Famine, who died in their...
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Battlefield Blues, by Laurie Graham
Last month I visited Culloden Moor, the site of the battle that ended once and for all the Jacobite Rebellion and the Stuarts’ hopes of regaining the throne. It was actually a return visit for me -...
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