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At the warm heart of the Italian family - Michelle Lovric
This week I’ve been lucky enough to meet Vicky Bennison, who happens to be a neighbour of mine in London. Being myself an author of extremely greedy historical novels set in Italy, it was a great...
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The Lost Village of Tyneham by Katherine Clements
Post Office Row, Tyneham c. 1900In November 1943, the inhabitants of the small, isolated village of Tyneham in Dorset, were given 28 days to evacuate their homes. As the Second World War headed towards...
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Sulpicia's birthday
by Antonia Senior It is mid-afternoon on a Saturday and I am in a pub. Alone. With no children. I am hanging around, waiting for child 1 to emerge from a dreadful, dark din of trampolines and neon,...
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ON THE SHIFTING IMAGERY OF WAR – Elizabeth Fremantle
A visit to the Paul Nash exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich the other day got me thinking about how the way we represent war culturally has changed over the last two hundred years and how...
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Life begins at 60: Hokusai at the British Museum by Lesley Downer
In pre-modern Japan the belief was that we start a whole new lifecycle at the age of 60. The Hokusai exhibition at the British Museum focuses on the celebrated artist’s work after this seminal age....
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Life begins at 60: Hokusai at the British Museum by Lesley Downer
In pre-modern Japan the belief was that we start a whole new lifecycle at the age of 60. The Hokusai exhibition at the British Museum focuses on the celebrated artist’s work after this seminal age....
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A Trip to Eyam: The Plague Village by Fay Bound Alberti
For as long as I can remember I have been interested in the history of the plague. I learned about the village of Eyam in Derbyshire while studying at the University of York. And a few weeks ago, I...
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Desperately seeking Hamlet... Sue Purkiss
This time last week, during a holiday in Copenhagen, we decided to head north to Helsingør. It was only a short train-ride, and there was someone we were eager to meet - someone who has intrigued me...
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NOTICING THE NOTICES or The Case of the Disappearing Vizier by Penny Dolan
As a young teen, I spent many school holidays wandering round the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum, gazing, sketching and daydreaming about the objects around me. Since then, as...
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Guy of Warwick - A Very English Hero - Celia Rees
My last month's History Girls blog was about the gothic ruin, Guy's Cliffe House, and the history and legend attached. One or two of the comments wanted to know more about Guy of Warwick, legendary...
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Alternative history: It’s not just about Nazis by Alison Morton
Adaptations of The Man in the High Castle (original story by Philip K Dick, 1962) and SS-GB (Len Deighton, 1978) have been the most prominent ‘what if’s in front of the viewing public’s eyes recently....
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Lost worlds, changed lives: life beyond the Black Death
I have always thought, perhaps along with many people, that, after the devastation caused by what we call The Black Death in the mid-fourteenth century, huge numbers of communities, villages and...
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London Books by Imogen Robertson
Being a Londoner feels a bit tough this month. I’ve worked in Borough Market and lots of my friends still do, as does my husband from time to time. Now the horror of that attack has been subsumed by...
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Museums, Doll Houses and Giant Scones by Catherine Hokin
I have recently started working on a project with the Glasgow Women’s Library as a Community Curator which is all a bit fab. I will be doing a post about the library shortly and, when we work out what...
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The Apothecary's rose, by Leslie Wilson
It is in flower in my garden now, and on warm days and evenings it fills the air with scent. It is a healthy, beautiful rose, flowering only once, but profusely, over a long period. Fly sometimes...
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MEDIEVAL BRITAIN C.1000-1500 By David Crouch. An overview by Elizabeth Chadwick
The other day a signed copy of this beautiful book landed on my desk, courtesy of David Crouch, professor of medieval history at the University of Hull.I think I have most of Professor Crouch's works...
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Elections in Georgian England by Miranda Miller
I’ve spoken to several friends who feel that there have been too many elections lately and that voting, far from being a privilege, is a bit of a bore. It’s worth remembering that in this country...
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THE LOST GIRL, by Carol Drinkwater
In just a few days time, my new novel THE LOST GIRL will be published.I have already written on my HG blogs that the story is set in two time zones: post WWII in France and 2015 Paris and includes a...
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Queen Victoria's first railway journey by Janie Hampton
Exactly 175 years ago this month, Queen Victoria, who had then ruled Britain for five years, was the first British monarch ever to travel by train. The first railway line in Britain had been opened in...
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Curves and Corsets by Julie Summers
'Wartime fashion? Was there such a thing? Is there enough to write a book about it?' That was my immediate reaction when I was asked to write a book for the Imperial War Museum about wartime clothing...
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