Clare Mulley talks to HWA Honorary Patron, Michael Morpurgo, about the extraordinary family history that inspired his latest book. On...

First published by English PEN, 12 May 2017 ‘I treat language like a tool, like a fork and knife when you have to eat reality’, the m...

The names of 75 courageous women from 13 nations are etched into a beautiful memorial at RAF Tempsford,   home of the Special Duties Squadro...

This year’s Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film went to Ida , an extraordinary, haunting, Polish historical drama directed by Paweł...

As I understand it, biography is about finding out the truth about people and reporting back. This seems perfect work for me, as I am natura...

This month marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the Warsaw Uprising. By the summer of 1944 the tide of the Second World War had turned. ...

When we think about the Holocaust today, we mostly remember the victims, perpetrators, bystanders and collaborators. We should also think ab...

Sometimes art and music provide a much more immediate and powerful connection with the past than history books, or the biographies that I wr...

Last week my biography of Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, the first woman to work for Britain as a special agent in the Second Wo...