November 29, 2024
This morning, the final instalment of the podcast She Wrote Too’s Agatha Christie month was released, appropriately titled The Final Episode. In November, they have spoken to a wealth of people bound together by their love of Agatha Christie, including Read more…
November 7, 2024
At the end of last week, I was to be found back at one of my old haunts, the British Library, to see their new exhibition, Medieval Women In Their Own Words. I went with my Museums Friend, Becca, whom Read more…
October 29, 2024
“How much more interesting it would be if I could say that I always longed to be a writer” wrote Agatha, in the autobiography she penned between 1950 and 1965. With her legendarily terrible spelling and her tongue-tied, inarticulate, awkwardness Read more…
October 27, 2024
In October 2024, I was invited onto the podcast She Wrote Too, hosted by Nicola Morgan and Caroline Rance, to talk about Agatha Christie and what lead her to be the best-selling author ever, after the Bible and Shakespeare. We Read more…
October 25, 2024
Even by 1830, the population in the parish of Chesham Bois had not risen above 160 people and focussed mostly on the Common and the Moor, with small groups of families in the cottages on the farms or at the Read more…
The Rise of the Gentleman Farmer The Posse Comitatus, taken in 1798, was a survey of all men between the ages of 15 and 60 who could form an army if needed, due to the fear that Napoleon may imminently Read more…
The area around Chesham and Chesham Bois shows various finds from the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Ages, suggesting that the valley of the river Chess and the hills around it were favoured spots for settlement. There are fewer Read more…