The damning story behind Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain.
On this day, 71 years ago…
Kate Thompson - Forgotten Histories
Sunday Times bestselling author of fiction and non fiction. Journalist. Social Historian. Ghostwriter. Podcast: From The Library With Love. Sharing the stories missing from the history books.
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What I learnt from my wartime namesake
Kate Thompson was a woman who took multi-tasking to a new level.
Women of the Blitz...
Hello all…
Children of War
Firstly, can I please apologise for not having posted for a long time?
Farewell Pat Spicer, the Pocket Venus of the East End
It’s with a heavy heart that I share the news that yet another of the wonderful wartime women I have had the privilege of interviewing, has passed away.
Read all about it - the Underground Blitz newspaper
Complete with it's own lonely hearts club!
London's Travelling Wartime Library
To celebrate the upcoming publication of my fifteenth book, The Secret Society of Librarians, I’m sharing some of the remarkable stories I uncovered in my research.
Come with me and visit an ancient, hidden library in the heart of London.
To celebrate the upcoming publication of my fifteenth book, The Secret Society of Librarians, I’m sharing some of the remarkable stories I uncovered in my research.
Happy 102nd birthday, Marianne.
Life lessons from an extraordinary woman...
What happened when Auschwitz survivor Renee Salt returned to the Nazi death camp - with her grandson.
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, marking 81 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp.