Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

In ‘A Book of Folk-Lore’ (1913) the Devon folklorist Sabine Baring-Gould recounts three instances in which he and memb...

  In Thomas Gray's beautiful  'Elegy Written in a County Churchyard' , he muses over the unknown, uncelebrated talent of the hum...

This post first appeared on The History Girls blog in 2015. Judging by the apple blossom, the spring weather must have been cooler that year...

When we were children my brother and I would sometimes bemoan our bad luck in never having any adventures. We were big fans of Enid Bl...

  At the end of this month my book about Narnia will be published – 'From Spare Oom to War Drobe', Darton Longman and Todd, 29 th...