Casting Light upon the Shadow

Someone asked my - adult - daughter once if I travelled to many locations in the course of my research. Her answer was: 'She stands arou...

It would be no surprise that childhood in centuries past was radically different from the experience of youngsters in the 20th and 21st cent...

Repton: the name has always been familiar to me. The first pages of To Be A Queen describe how the royal Mercian family is forced to flee b...

Over the last few months, I've been asking a group of talented writers and historians to imagine their 'Fantasy Twenty-Four Hours....

"Open weekend reveals secrets of historic church." The headline in the local paper was intriguing. Mum kept the cutting for me, an...

Over the course of this year I've invited a number of authors to write about the music that inspires them, either to write, or while w...