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LONGBOURN by Jo Baker: the Servants' Story. Review by Penny Dolan.
I overlooked LONGBOURN, the novel by Jo Baker, when it was published in 2013. However, Joan Lennon’s recent History Girls video-post, where the adept presenter needed help with dressing herself in her...
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Jane Austen: 200th Anniversary - Celia Rees
Portrait of Austen (c. 1810) by her sister, CassandraJuly has been Jane month on the History Girls and today we are marking the 200th anniversary of her death by posting some of our thoughts and...
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Gibbon's Decline and Fall – Reading for the age of Austen? by Alison Morton
Edward Gibbon by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792)In his Companion to the Roman Empire (2006), David S Potter called Edward Gibbon the 'first historian of the Roman Empire'. In The History of the Decline...
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The fascination of British History Online
Browsing the British History Online (BHO) website can while away many a happy hour in a fascinating, sometimes surprising, experience. If you don’t know of it, BHO is a digital library of key printed...
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Trieste and the Castello di Miramare by Imogen Robertson
Trieste and usSo Ned and I went to Trieste in north-eastern Italy for a week in June, partly because of Jan Morris and partly because we were celebrating a bit of history of our own, our fifth wedding...
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Jane Austen and Walter Scott: Not Quite Love and Friendship by Catherine Hokin
“Walter Scott has no business writing novels, especially good ones – it is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people’s mouths.” Jane...
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All for Love? Pride and Prejudice, Hermsprong, and rational attachment
Jane Austen, by Cassandra Austen, uploaded by Winniwuk at German Wikimedia'whom she regarded herself with an interest, if not quite so tender, at least as reasonable and just, as what Jane felt for...
View ArticleJANE AUSTEN YOUTUBE DELIGHTS FOR AN AUSTEN NON-FAN By Elizabeth Chadwick
This month on the History Girls has a Jane Austen theme in celebration of the author's 200th anniversary.I confess I am not a fan of Jane Austen's writing. My first brush with her work came during the...
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Jane Austen by Miranda Miller
Apologies if I’m repeating some of what other bloggers have written this month but I find I have a lot I want to say about her. Cassandra’s naive drawing of her sister looks down at me as I write....
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In Memory of Max Gallo, by Carol Drinkwater
Max Gallo at a book signingI am going to begin with an apology. I am on a book tour for my new novel, THE LOST GIRL, running between cities, so please forgive the brevity of this month's post. I...
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Lady Maud Hoare and the silver trowel by Janie Hampton
Lady Maud Hoare in 1941Some years before she died, my mother gave me an old silver trowel as a birthday present. With its chunky, solid, ivory handle it has the weight and shape of a real builder’s...
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Dunkirk by Julie Summers
I went to see Dunkirk earlier this week. Not the town but the film of the same title written and directed by Christopher Nolan. It is a remarkable piece of art but is it a good film? And is it...
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The Women who Flew for Hitler by Clare Mulley
Our guest for July is Clare Mulley used to be a History Girl herself.Clare is an award-winning biographer, and regular contributor to historical and current affairs journals, TV and radio. Clare’s...
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Cabinet of Curiosities: Collins' Classics & Jane Austen by Charlotte Wightwick
This month the History Girls have a Jane Austen theme so when it came to considering what to put into the Cabinet of Curiosities, it seemed only appropriate to bring my own little piece of Jane Austen...
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July competition
To win a copy of Clare Mulley's The Women who Flew for Hitler, just answer this question in the Comments below."How best should we tell stories from the 'wrong side' of history?"Then send a copy of...
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A Tale of Two Teas
“The British really are the only people in the world who become genuinely enlivened when presented with a hot beverage and a small plain biscuit.” Bill BrysonDo you know who first popularised...
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Grave Matters, by Gillian Polack
Australia can be besotted with tombstones. This expresses itself in interesting ways. When I was in my teens, my parents decided to join a project that mapped every single Jewish gravestone in the...
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Life in History by Debra Daley
So much of my own life is history now. I was listening to a podcast about Kunming, the capital of the Chinese province of Yunnan, which lies north of Vietnam and east of Myanmar. Two millennia ago, it...
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