I love my family. Last year, for my birthday, among other things my mum gave me a well-wrapped cigar box celebrating the Brussels Grand Prix...

Ninety-five years ago this month, in May 1919, a remarkable woman called Eglantyne Jebb, and her sister, Dorothy Buxton, changed the world. ...

During a recent sort out, my mum found a small square of newspaper, cut out and neatly gummed onto a piece of glass cut to size. It had been...

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

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 ...