Frances in Filey

The seaside town of Filey, a former fishing village on the east coast of Yorkshire…

Leeds-Dortmund anniversary celebrations

      LD50 During the past two weeks my home city has been marking…

Wiki: Enthralling Historical Mysteries that Take Place in England

I’m delighted that DYING IN THE WOOL, first book in the Kate Shackleton series, has…

The Secret World of Emily Brontë

(Written on New Year’s Eve.) We’ve almost reached the end of the celebrations of Emily…

A Suffrage Anniversary

A SUFFRAGE ANNIVERSARY There is always a huge amount of interesting background information that never…

A Trip to Germany with Murderous Sisters

I’m recently back from a trip to Germany where I was honoured to be guest…

Moerderische Schwestern Conference 2017

It’s an honour and a pleasure to be guest speaker at this conference in Kloester-Schoental.

Here are the links to my talk, in German and in English.

German talk (in German)
German talk (in English))

Stewed Mushrooms in Gravy and an old recipe book

I was recently invited to contribute a post to Suzanne’s Dear Reader Column and was…

“Vigee likes your review”

  This morning, I was thinking that it’s a long while since I wrote a…