In those few enchanted hours she lived
In April 1930 the 19 year-old typist Hilda Lewis was prosecuted for stealing from her employers, the publishers Messrs Baines and Scarbrook, after “masquerade[ing] … as the millionaire heiress of … Continue reading
July 21, 2015 · 2 Comments
Lives, stories and histories
I bought these three scrapbooks online a few years ago. There are three of them, each full of individual photographs and pages cut from magazines and newspapers and laboriously pasted … Continue reading
November 21, 2013 · 6 Comments
Tensing up; or, the uses (and abuses) of writing history in the present tense
One of the things that I like about Twitter is how it can prompt us to reflect on aspects of our writing and historical practice that we might otherwise take … Continue reading
September 5, 2013 · 7 Comments
The Trickster Prince 