I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.
No one's book is perfect.
Having instant feedback on twitter to research material I'm considering is an enormous help.
We are living in glorious days where each readers' voice can be heard.
I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.
Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.
They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?
Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.
We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.
Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Eu...
I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month before my 11th birthday. I was far too young to have developed a great deal of political awareness. I...
He didn’t look as if he’d been through a whirlwind exactly but he’d certainly endured a stiff breeze.
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