A Victorian Marital Disaster by Stephanie Williams In the 1850’s the public breakdown of the marriage of Edward Bulwer-Lytton and his wife R...

‘Your ambassadors have arrived here with your tribute, four male slaves and six female slaves plus two pieces of cloth with designs, each 20...

 by Deborah Swift In the last few weeks we have heard a lot on the news about WW2's 80th anniversary of Operation Market Garden and Ar...

We at the History Girls are grateful to Sarah Gristwood for this guest post about her latest, fascinating, book.   It wa...

You may recall from an earlier  blog   I wrote for the History Girls that Autumn is my favourite time of year. This September is no exceptio...

  I’m not at my desk. This is rare for me. I’ve been unwell for a number of years and one of the results is that I almost live at my desk. ...

A Jenny Haniver Photo: M.Violante It is so important to take children to museums, I mean proper museums with real objects in glass cases, no...