Sue Wilkes

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. 

A child miner in 1842. In 1842, a Children's Employment Commission was set up to discover the true facts about child labour in Britain...

  My book Regency Cheshire has been out of print for some years now - so I'm very pleased to announce that you can now buy it in  paper...