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Magnificent Men and Disastrous Machines. By Judith AllnattThis is the story of Percy Pilcher, a man who could have beaten the Wright brothers to their record of first flight in a powered aircraft if...
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Jesus-in-a-bottle - Michelle LovricI’m spending most of spring in Venice this year. For the first six weeks I carried the usual A6 spiral-bound notebook everywhere. I kept adding...
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Web-surfing and a C16th entrepreneur by Elisabeth StorrsAs an historical novelist, I encounter both joy and tribulation in researching via the internet. Surfing the web provides a plethora...
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A Dark Plot by L.J. TraffordDeath of an Emperor On the 18th of September in the year 96 CE, a young Imperial slave boy was attending to the shrine to the Lares, the gods of...
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Spies, Lies & Deception - Celia ReesBeing interested in spies and all things spying, I just caught the end of this fascinating exhibition at The Imperial War...
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To Tate Britain - and Ellen Terry’s Dress. By Penny DolanThe iconic portrait of Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth in her beetle-wing dress has been a favourite painting of mine for many, many...
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Ada Lovelace - by Sue PurkissOn a recent stay on Exmoor, I came across an article about someone called Ada Lovelace. I had vaguely heard of her, but if you'd asked me...
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Art, Colonialism and Change by Stephanie WilliamsIf you move fast, you can just catch the fabulous exhibition Entangled Pasts 1768-Now, Art, Colonialism and Change at the Royal Academy in...
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The Men who Ate Gold ~ by Lesley DownerLike a great cloud The Wiraqochas [Whites] Demanding gold Have invaded us. The Death of Atau Wallpa ,...
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The Aspidistra Radio Transmitter #WW2by Deborah Swift Harold Robin - WW2 Radio Engineer The Shadow Network which forms the title of my latest book refers to the fake...
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In Defence of Poland by Rebecca AlexanderMy first neighbours were a couple in their eighties from Poland. As time went on, they told me stories of life in childhood, celebrations, food,...
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Stories in Flowers by Caroline K. MackenzieSpring is on its way. It has been a long winter (or, at least, it feels that way) and the bursting of buds and arrival of flowers bring welcome...
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"Hans the Most Famous"* by Mary HoffmanHnas Holbein the Younger, Self-portrait Think of Henry Vlll and what picture floats into yoir mind? Or Thomas Cromwell,...
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'Inigo Jones - Inventor of the Glitter Ball' by Karen MaitlandInigo Jones (1573-16520 Artist: William Hogarth (1697-1764) National Maritime Museum, Greenwich Today, we mainly remember Inigo...
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Family Junk or Family Treasure? by Janet FewHaving recently moved house, for what really must be the last time, I have become acutely aware of just how much ‘stuff’ I have. Much of...
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A Gentle Meander by Sheena WilkinsonLike most History Girls I love reading – fiction, non-fiction, old favourites, new releases, whatever I’m in the mood for. Sometimes, especially...
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Great Minds: 2500 Years of Thinkers and Philosophy (Haig, Lennon, Ducci) - Joan LennonI joined the History Girls as a writer of historical fiction for 8-12 year olds, way back in 2012. And now I write historical...
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THE LANGUAGE OF FANS ... by Susan Stokes-ChapmanIt exercises the office of the zephyrs, and cools the glowing breast. It saves the blush of modesty by showing all we wish to see, yet hiding...
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When the Old becomes New Again, by Gillian PolackI have been saved from a post I didn’t want to write by an email on 1 January. Today, you see, is a national holiday in Australia....
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Ally Pally Prison Camp by Maggie BrookesGrowing up in North London, Alexandra Palace has always been on my skyline. The first palace opened on Queen Victoria's 54th birthday,...
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The Turban in Fashion by Kathryn GauciNormal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE...
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Why did men wear Cod Pieces?I went to see the rock group Jethro Tull perform on several occasions when I was a lot younger. The front man, Ian Anderson, would stand on one...
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One Day in Dublin, by Carol DrinkwaterOne Day in Dublin Due to Covid and work restraints, I...
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Anne Boleyn's Book of Hours by Judith AllnattOn 19th May this year I visited Hever Castle, Anne Boleyn's childhood home. It was on this day in 1536 that Anne was beheaded at the Tower...
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History repeats. ‘Almost pathological madness’: the monster cruise ships to return to Venice by 2027, guided in by Mayor Brugnaro - Michelle LovricLuigi Brugnaro, Venice’s mayor, has never quite given up on the cruise ships – not even after they were banished to Marghera to the applause of...
