Historical Novelist, Biographer, Historian

Cross Dressing

Anne and Mary: Pirates! A Guest Blog by Helen Hollick

Theirs was a harsh life, overshadowed each day by the presence of death, but the lure of gold, the excitement of the Chase – and the freedom that life aboard …

Suffragettes in Trousers

I love Murdoch Mysteries, a television detective series set in early 1900s Toronto. Recently I enjoyed an episode (Victor, Victorian) which featured a group of women who regularly dressed up …