To mark ‘Women’s History Month’ I am dedicating my March blog to four Russian sisters… A couple of years ago the Russianist, historian, tr...

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 I was delighted to meet Ruth Ive, ‘the woman who censored Churchill’, as she is styled in her memoirs.[i] As a war-time telephone ...

Earlier this month I was invited to contribute to a three-hour festive marathon; Channel 5 ’s ‘Greatest Ever Christmas Movies’ special, whic...

The twenty-second Winter Olympic Games, and the 2014 Winter Paralympics, will be held in Sochi, in southern Russia, next February. So far th...

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...

As a historical biographer, I aim to capture the spirit of people on paper. And yet my latest subject, Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granv...