Author Simon Fower discusses tens of thousands of men and women who performed heroic acts on the Home Front during the Second World War.

Mike O’Connor Mike O’Connor is a powerful and engaging storyteller who performs at many events across the country. An important researcher into Cornish music and folklore, he has been awarded the OBE ...

Catherine Lorigan has a BA (Hons) in Medieval and Modern History, an MSt in English Local History, a PhD in Cornish Studies, an MA in Music and a Diploma in Vernacular Architecture with distinction, ...

TRACEY NORMAN is an historian and author with a particular interest in witchcraft cases. She is the author of the acclaimed play WITCH, using actual witch trial documents to tell the story of a ...

CHRISTOPHER RIDGWAY is head curator at Castle Howard, chair of the Yorkshire Country House Partnership, and adjunct professor at the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates at ...

MAURICE CURTIS holds a Ph.D in Modern Irish History andlecturse on History. He spent ten years as Assistant Manager/Book Buyer for the Veritas chain of bookshops in Ireland. He is involved with the ...

Dr TONY HEATHCOTE studied South Asian History at SOAS University of London and, as curator of the Royal Military Sandhurst Collection, was for many years the principal curatorial officer in the ...

ANDREW CROWTHER is an expert on W.S. Gilbert, Secretary of the W.S. Gilbert Society, and the author of Contradiction Contradicted: The Plays of W.S. Gilbert. He lives in Bradford and is, himself, a ...

EDMUND IRONSIDE served in the Royal Navy and, after succeeding to his father’s title, went on to a varied career with, amongst others, Marconi and Rolls-Royce. He was for many years an active member ...

STEWART RICHARDS has worked extensively in the media as a film producer and television executive, as well as producing drama programmes for BBC Radio 4. He established the audiobook publisher Mr Punch ...

KATHRYN BEDFORD is a history PhD student whose dissertation was on Kentish history, with a focus on Canterbury. She is passionate about local history and about Kent, where she is proud to have been ...