By Deborah Swift I was really interested to read this week, that the coded letters of Mary Queen of Scots have just been deciphered by mode...

  Right now, I’m not in the Middle Ages. I’m in the seventeenth century. An important part of my research is looking at whether one novelis...

The interesting papers of colonial Australia have to wait a bit for my life is suddenly full of the relationship between fiction and hi...

I often ask people “What would you like me to write about in my articles?” They want me (mostly) to write about people.  My fiction ...

I collect cookbooks produced by communities. Sometimes they’re big volumes, stuffed with recipes from every single family that attends a...