Historical Belles and Beaus

All cultures have harvest festivals. The United States harvest festival is Thanksgiving, now celebrated on the fourth Thursday of Novembe...

At the start of the war ration books were issued and by March 1940 bacon, sugar, butter and meat were being rationed. By the following Jul...

Influences: In the 19 th Century, gentlemen cast aside the brightly colored silks and satins of the 18 th Century. Regency men’s clot...

‘A Corset is of sterling worth in aiding and beautifying the figure.’  Have you ever considered a corset as a status symbol; a means of c...

One of my books, The Gentle Wind's Caress, is set in an area of Yorkshire known as Calderdale. The villages that feature in the book ar...

I remember World War 2 very vividly although I was only a child at the time and writing about it in The Girl on the Beach , meant doing...