Sue Wilkes

 My latest feature for Jane Austen's Regency World (January/February issue) is on the progress of steam-boats during Austen's lifeti...

  Happy Christmas everyone! I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and New Year.  Image: A lady in evening dress - perhaps in mourning. ...

  Willoughby asks Elinor to stay. Today is Jane Austen's 250th birthday! Pop over to my Jane Austen blog so see my highlights of her bi...

  Thiepval Memorial.  Over ten years ago, we paid a visit to Loos Memorial  so that I could pay my respects to my great-uncles Harry and Her...

 My latest feature for Jane Austen's Regency World magazine  (Nov/Dec issue) is on the ancient craft of dyeing.  In 1814, Jane Austen wr...

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...