Wait a second, it’s May! When did that happen? Wasn’t it January just last week? Read more...

At what point in January does wishing people a ‘Happy New Year’ just sound obnoxious? Let’s give it a go. Happy New Year! Yep, that didn’t feel good. Read more...

The boyfriend and I have a mint plant baby. Her name is Mandy. And she is glorious! Read more...

I’m a terrible blogger. But boy, am I committed! I’ve kept a blog in one form or another for more than a decade, (does Tumblr still even exist…?), and still, my sporadic posts hop from topics like date etiquette, to holiday snaps, and examining England’s National Curriculum. Read more...

I’m currently working for the explosive company History Bombs, (see what I did there?), which includes creating some shiny new blog content – you can check it out here. Read more...

Four of my all-time favourite things are food, history, food history, and dogs. The last one is irrelevant to this post, but fortunately I combined the three former interests in a blog post all about using food in public history recently. Read more...

Every proud millennial has at least one old blog drifting about in the digital ether. A long-forgotten relic from a former life, ready to be stumbled upon and bring with it a heavy dose of nostalgia (or regret, depending). Read more...

To quote every dating app profile out there: I love travelling! While studying for my recent MA had many positive elements, enough income to warrant a holiday was not one of them. So, I was pretty darn excited when I could viably book an impromptu trip to Krakow, Poland for the Easter weekend! Read more...

As anyone who has shared even the briefest conversation with me recently will know, my summer has been dominated by vegetarian suffragettes. Read more...

Confession: after almost a year of my MA in Public History, I still struggle to give a confident answer when asked, ‘What is public history?’. While attempting to explain, people usually look on with an expression that reads: ‘Why couldn’t you just be studying biology?’ Read more...

Call me a snob, but I didn’t have the highest of expectations when I found myself travelling to Marbella last month. I was under the impression that this corner of Spain was all Brits, booze and… (sun)burn. Granted, my only real frame of reference was a girls holiday that I and 11 friends took when we were 18, (DorsetGirlsOnTour2008 4eva, am I right?!) Read more...

The sad thing about most university work is that for all the hours (days, weeks!) of effort you put into an assignment, once it’s handed in for marking it rarely sees the light of day again. The journalist in me doesn’t like this one bit, which is why I’ve made a point of turning assignments into feature articles or blog posts (see my History Bombs review and Dior feature) and it’s also how I ended up on BBC Radio Solent chatting about Dorset’s smuggling history last week. Read more...

Not to encourage stereotypes and all, but British people love some good weather. You know, the type of real, substantial weather that gives us some handy small talk fodder to use throughout the day. And we’ve been in luck recently – snow, in March? I know! Can you believe it? Read more...

Who knew that local history could be fun? Well, I’m ashamed to admit that I didn’t. That is until I decided to tackle a nugget of Dorset history for a radio documentary I recently produced, as part of my Public History MA. The task was to create a half-hour history programme from scratch on, well, absolutely anything. (Intimidating is an understatement!) Read more...

Anyone who knows me – or has even glimpsed my Twitter and Instagram accounts – will know that I am an out-and-proud history nerd. Always have been, (as any of the popular kids at my school could have told you…). As such, history has become an increasingly big focus of my feature writing. Read more...

For a recent assignment for my Masters we were asked to review a piece of Public History and I choose a video by the wonderful team (and new BAFTA winners) History Bombs. While it’s a little longer (and more academic) than my average blog post I thought ‘what the heck?’, I’m proud of it so why not post it. Enjoy! Read more...

History and fashion rarely mix. This isn’t a dig on historians’ fashion sense, but rather a comment on how fashion, as a source material, is neglected by academic history. Perhaps fashion is believed to be an industry obsessed with the future – so what can it tell us about the past? – or maybe it’s simply seen as too shallow to be of any real historical significance. Read more...

Gird your loins, as I’m unlikely to say this again: occasionally I feel sorry for men when dating. Read more...

It hasn’t even been four months since I moved back to the UK and I’m already getting itchy feet and feeling the urge to travel and explore. This probably has something to do with the fact I’ve been writing about Tbilisi, Georgia for a recent project and have also finally set up a Flickr page for my photos. Read more...

After much exporting, uploading and linking (fuelled by my stash of peanut butter filled pretzel bites from Trader Joe’s), I’ve finally spruced and updated my portfolio – check it out here. Read more...

Maybe I was late to the game, but my love of podcasts started almost two years ago when, home for Christmas, my sister shoved her iPod Nano into my hand and demanded that I listen to this show call Serial. Read more...

Heels have been a hot feminist issue for years. Are they empowering, because they make us lady types look taller, more professional and generally darn sassy? Or are they just tools used by the patriarchy to imprison women, like a diamante ball and chain? Read more...

NB. I wrote this blog post a good few months ago during Ramadan. It’ll give you a good idea of just how much free time I had… Read more...