The first time I saw Jane Austen described as a ‘prose Shakespeare’ it struck me as absolute perfection. It was George Henry Lewes, in the 19th century, that gave her the epithet, although he attributed it to Thomas Babington Macaulay,...
My latest paper has been published in Axon: Creative Explorations, in a wonderful issue on ‘Connections: Between Creative Writing, Place & History’. In writing a personal essay, I was given the opportunity to explore the historian’s motivations, their relationship with...
My latest paper has been published in Rethinking History. In Un-disabling the King: Richard III and the ‘New Evidence’ I examined one of the major distortions of information surrounding Richard III in the period in which his grave was discovered,...
