The history of seasons isn’t always what we think it is. Using the Australian summer as a baseline, when I was a child the Christmas cards a...

  When my new novel was published this year, I became everything I had once disdained.     As an avid amateur historian...

It’s hard to imagine now, but there was a time when, if you didn’t know something and neither did your neighbours, you had to find a book an...

Thank you to Susan Price for this guest post; Janie Hampton will be back in July. And a Happy New Year to all our readers!   My mother hated...

  "France is Josephine."  1906-1975 This is one of the photos I took of the facade of the Panthéon, snapped while I was queuing to...