Secrets of a Spy's Jewellery As a biographer I hope to get under the skin of my subjects, to trace their emotions, hopes and attitude...

Do Bunny Down: when shared war stories can help to heal When researching biographies I am privileged to meet and exchange letters with man...

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

Sorting through some family papers recently, my mother came across a handsome gentleman’s silver cigarette case. The initials ‘LM’, etched s...

I have written biographies of two very different women. The Woman Who Saved the Children (Oneworld Publications, 2009) tells the story of E...

Hiroshima: City of Peace Seventy years ago this month, on Monday 6 August 1945, the nuclear bomb known as ‘Little Boy’ was dropped on Hiro...

‘We have to devise a means of making known the facts  in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world.’  Eglantyne Jebb   P...