Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

  The past is another country and it may take a lot of research and imagination to recreate its multilayered richness of sights, sounds, sm...

  Aged nine and passionate about Narnia, I wrote a set of my own stories about that magical country, a far-off labour of love which resulted...

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...