by Deborah Swift I have been writing for quite a number of years now and in that time the publishing landscape has changed enormously. I am...

Like most people, the history I studied at school was mostly about men and wars and politics. Public history, if you like.  I...

by Deborah Swift Like most writers I'm a prolific reader. This week I took a look at my reading pattern to see what I read, and how...

 A recent gloriously sunny morning at the Columbia Road Flower Market yielded not blooms but a book. Forgive my unctuous and outdated verbos...

Four years ago this month I started the Georgian London blog, to discuss the lesser known aspects of the eighteenth century city. The blog...

Today I went to a meeting of the Friends of my local Library, one of the Carnegie buildings. We met in a small neat room in the basement...