December 2016

A new year by Mary Hoffman

Reading Julie Summers' post a few days ago about New Year's Resolutions gave me pause for thought. I'm not a great maker of res...

To win one of five copies of Christina Koning's Time of Flight, just answer the following question in the Comments section below: "...

As most people know, Christmas trees were first introduced into the UK in the nineteenth century, influenced by the habits of the royal fam...

Our guest for November is Christina Koning, formerly of this parish. Christina left the History Girls when she became a Royal Literary Fund ...

A few years ago a husband of a friend of mine announced at midnight on 31 December that his New Year's Resolution was to make love to hi...

When I was a small child my grandmother told me of a terrible event that she had witnessed. ‘My father took me to Regent’s Park,’ she told m...

This month my blog is very short. Apologies for that. I am a little unwell. On top of that, due to the loss of my mother earlier this year, ...

I think we’re all feeling rather battered by the pace of change over the last year. How would it feel to be living through a period of re...

My father-in-law, William James Hicks joined the army in his late teens soon after the start of World War II. Born in Shoreditch and then m...