Mobile phones, FaceTime, WhatsApp, social media… It’s hard to imagine the world without instant communications, but if you ask any older p...

  What a can-do bunch the Victorians were! I decided to return to the Victorian age in my latest book Rivet Boy for a whole lot of reaso...

One of the things I used to associate with those quiet days after Christmas was having to write thank you letters. Before computers and smar...

Hands up: who enjoys history class in school? Truth be told, I loved history lessons, but I found it all a little bit hard. I was focusing s...

On a chilly morning in early autumn, a funeral procession moves through the silent streets of London. The coffin has come from the grand sur...

I’ll say this for Prince Albert of  Saxe-Coburg and Gotha : He was an enthusiast. Steam Power, engineering, plumbing, Scotland, Christmas tr...