Voices from the past can still be heard today through the living social history of songs passed down through generations, whether they’re still sung by tradition-bearers, recorded by folk song enthusiasts or printed in broadsides or books, says Fiona Mountain. She tells Historia how the story of a murder committed over 200 years ago lives […]
The Last Days of Leda Grey by Essie Fox
Essie Fox has established a fine reputation as a writer of gothic novels and though her previous books have been set in Victorian times, the Edwardian era of silent movies seems like a very natural backdrop for gothic fiction. The images in these old flickering black and white films with their beautifully mute but vampish […]
Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind, the book, celebrates its 80th anniversary this year. What’s so astonishing about this, besides the fact that by it’s 75th anniversary more than 30 million copies of the Pulitzer Prize winner had been printed worldwide, is that heroine, Scarlett O Hara, is so thoroughly modern. Her refusal to take no for […]