Sue Wilkes

No 8, College Street, Winchester.   A few weeks ago, I was very privileged to see inside No 8, College Street, Winchester, the house where J...

My latest feature for Jane Austen's Regency World (July/August issue) is on linen manufacture.  Flax-drawing and flax-breaking.  In a l...

My latest feature for  Jane Austen's Regency World  (May/June issue) is on the advent of printing newspapers and books by steam-power, i...

My latest feature for Jane Austen's Regency World  (March issue) is on the art of paper-making. Paper was needed, of course, for Jane...

A blue plaque is planned for George Brewster, a climbing boy (child chimney sweep) who died on 12 March 1875 after swallowing a large amou...

  Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you all had a peaceful Christmas and New Year.  The January/February 2025 issue of  Jane Austen's Reg...

Happy Christmas! I hope you all have a wonderful, peaceful Christmas and New Year.  Image from the author's collection.