One of the great unanswerable questions of World War I, was whether Margaretha Geertruida Zelle McLeod, otherwise known as Mata Hari, was a German spy? In this blog post, we look at the evidence in the British Secret Service files and contemporary newspaper accounts, to find out more about the mistory and myth surrounding Mata Hari. Mata Hari’s Early Life…
Mary Blandy was in a tizz. At 2pm on Wednesday 14 August, her father, Francis Blandy died. The doctors suspected Arsenic, and she was the main suspect. Confined and guarded in her room, Mary paced up and down. Would they believe she had stupidly thought she was giving her father a love potion? Or would the world think she had…
Hi, Welcome to my website. I am a lawyer who loves reading books of all sorts but especially history about women in the long eighteenth century, be they highwaywomen or heiresses, authors or actresses, voyagers or victims. In my blog you will find stories about these women, books I am reading and the little things that make me think or…
