There will be very little by way of illustration in this post. I am unsure of what's in copyright and what's not, so unless I'm...

I n real life I’m the world’s most squeamish person. Cough beside me on public transport and I guarantee we won’t be companions for lon...

I'm a History Girl.  I'm an advocate of fiction as a way into the past.  And non-fiction as a way into the past.  Then, in-bet...

February is LGBT History Month in the UK and therefore an excuse to pull together my favourite historical fiction novels that explore gende...

One day in March this year,on a weekend in the Brecon Beacons, we stopped at the little church of St Cynog in the vill...

My first visit to Singapore, in October 2013, was in response to a family emergency. We stayed in Chinatown, near the General Hospital. The ...

If there’s a museum around, I’m usually to be found in the Roman section. But Roman sections are hard to come by in Hong Kong, where a rece...