I have recently started working on a project with the Glasgow Women’s Library as a Community Curator which is all a bit fab.  I will be doi...

Being a Londoner feels a bit tough this month. I’ve worked in Borough Market and lots of my friends still do, as does my husband fro...

I have always thought, perhaps along with many people, that, after the devastation caused by what we call The Black Death in the mid-fourte...

Adaptations of The Man in the High Castle (original story by Philip K Dick, 1962) and SS-GB (Len Deighton, 1978) have been the most pr...

My last month's History Girls blog  was about the gothic ruin,  Guy's Cliffe House, and the history and legend attached. One or...

As a young teen, I spent many school holidays wandering round the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum, gazing, sketching an...

This time last week, during a holiday in Copenhagen, we decided to head north to Helsingør. It was only a short train-ride, and there was so...