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22nd April, 2024 in Military
The thought arrived as I was hovering inside a crowded coffee shop directly opposite the Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand. Tables and bars pulsed with suited, brief cased, device-bashing professionals; the buzz from conversation being shouted and spoken into phones and faces…
17th April, 2024 in Women in History
This Sunday, 21st April marks the 208th anniversary of the birth of English novelist and poet Charlotte Brontë. While she lived only 38 years, her legacy – and her celebrity – have remained perennially present. Her 1847 novel Jane Eyre is one of the most enduring texts of the 19t…
3rd April, 2024 in Military
And so, in the early morning of 11 May, 973 heavy bombers took off in fine weather from airfields across East Anglia. Their mission was Operation 350: to fly 500 miles across France to attack railway marshalling yards in Mulhouse, Épinal, Belfort and Chaumont, and an airfield at…
3rd April, 2024 in Folklore
When it comes to folk tales in Scotland we find that the sea plays a very important role, and it’s hardly surprising. The coastline is over 11,600 miles long, taking in all the islands, both large and small. The sea dominated the lives of so many, and the old tales reflected the…
20th March, 2024 in Natural World
For National Flower Day Emma Timpany author of Botanical Short Stories discusses the fascination with flowers. We humans have a universal, innate love of flowers, and go to great lengths to satisfy this desire. The worldwide flower growing industry is worth billions of pounds, an…
12th March, 2024 in Biography & Memoir, Society & Culture
One day, we got a phone call from Vanity Fair saying the photographer Michael Roberts would like to shoot us on Savile Row. Michael was something of a trailblazer himself. Only a couple of years earlier, he had shot Vivienne Westwood impersonating Margaret Thatcher for the cover…
7th March, 2024 in Society & Culture, Women in History
Cambridge University is internationally renowned for its ancient colleges. It is lauded for its educational excellence. But in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, infamy blighted its hallowed name. As an alarming number of courtroom dramas exposed the university’s steadfa…
19th January, 2024 in Local & Family History, Women in History
This is the last book in the trilogy that started with my great great grandmother, Hannah Hall in the 1820’s as she re-located with her family to a new coal mine opening up in Hetton-le-Hole, County Durham. No-one at that time could have known the importance of that move. By 1822…
24th November, 2023 in Biography & Memoir, History, Special Editions
Following seven years of investigation and intelligence gathering, including archival searches around the world, Phase One of The Missing Princes Project is complete. The evidence uncovered suggests that both sons of Edward IV survived to fight for the English throne against Henr…
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`The Gargoyle had opened in 1925 and although nightclubs were not for ‘respectable’ women, it became the favoured nocturnal hunting ground for a group of Femmes Fatales whose sexual allure gave them an almost supernatural power over men.
At the centre of the glittering Gargoyle was the star of stage and screen, Hermione Baddeley. Once a household name, but now largely forgotten, Hermione was the daughter of the composer, William Clinton-Baddeley, and his stage-struck wife Louise – a resourceful and determined woman – who, spotting the artistic potential of her daughters, abandoned her husband and took them to London.`
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`The Invention of Charlotte Brontë` is out next month! Have you pre-ordered your copy yet? 🗨️ 📘 ✨
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#OTD in 1816 Charlotte Brontë was born.
In `The Invention of Charlotte Brontë discover a darker take on the Brontë family as siblings in conflict with each other and their father – think a period drama of Succession.
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