Among the few things I have that stem from my mother's girlhood is a collection of five books for children and young girls dating from...

Bran tub, 1922 (Berkshire Newspapers) Something that historical novelists are supposed to do is to 'capture the spirit of ...

Clare Parish Church My New Year’s resolution is to spend more time in church. To be more precise, it is to spend more time in...

There are really only two types of writers: those who need music when they write, and those who don’t. I’m the wishy-washy type who som...

Sometimes in our minds historical figures are inextricably linked to particular places. In the case of Mary, Queen of Scots, among th...

I recently visited the Hollywood Costume Exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum*.  It was very popular. I went with my daughter and...