Who comes into  your mind when when you hear the word Queen? The first Elizabeth? Victoria? Our present queen? Cleopatra? Mary, Queen of Sco...

The last few days have been skeleton-heavy. Royal tombs and dinosaur bones have marked my over-enthusiastic start to the school holidays, wh...

Photo credit: Chris Hadley Our July guest is Joanne Limberg, talking about her début novel, A Want of Kindness, about Queen Anne. Joa...

Hello, HG readers. I’ve been reading Liza Picard’s juicy social history of Restoration London . It is GRIPPING! Until now, I had on...

I have to admit the idea of tracing my family roots never really excited me, until my dad casually dropped into the family Sunday lu...

I've just been sold on eBay.  I went for £99.55 (if you include the postage) which is an enormous relief.  I was scared that no one wo...