I’ve learnt a few things about writing historical fiction during years of researching, plotting, drafting, editing, and abandoning novels, and here I share some of my discoveries...

Percy Baverstock is a favourite character from The Suffragette's Daughter, so when I was invited to enjoy a cocktail with one of my characters, he was the perfect choice. We meet Percy at the Tequila Mockingbird Cocktail Bar...

100 years on, mystery still surrounds the death of Mabel Greenwood from alleged arsenic poisoning in 1919...

Poison was a popular method of committing murder in 1920s and 1930s crime fiction. These are the decades considered to be the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, and cyanide, arsenic and strychnine were in plentiful supply in the novels of this period...

Women's football teams enjoyed great success in the first decades of the twentieth century. But in 1921, the Football Association introduced a ban that stayed in place for 50 years...

The first woman to be commemorated with a statue in Parliament Square was the suffragist campaigner Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett...

In my novel, The Suffragette’s Daughter, a murder takes place in 1920 in the real-life location of the Basingstoke Canal as it runs through Crookham. When I wrote this book, I had no idea that a tragic murder had taken place there in 1925…

On 21st May 1914, Emmeline Pankhurst was arrested at the gates of Buckingham Palace. She was trying to lead a delegation to see King George V - but more than 2,000 police officers were sent to stop her.

In 1909, four suffragettes chained themselves to statues in the Palace of Westminster to protest against a law banning disorderly conduct inside the Palace while Parliament was in session...

In The Suffragette’s Daughter, Iris Woodmore is a young journalist who turns sleuth. The novel is set in 1920, and there were no female detectives in the British police force at this time. But all that was about to change…