Helen Rappaport

From Stage to Study: The Remarkable Journey of Helen Rappaport, Historian and Storyteller

From Stage to Study: The Remarkable Journey of Helen Rappaport, Historian and Storyteller “I feel this very strongly with every book I write. I have to go to the place where it happened, or some of the places connected to the story to get a sense of place, to get a...

OTMA – The Romanov Sisters

Going out into the Koptyaki Forest where the family’s bodies were dumped after they were murdered in July 1918, left an indelible impression on my mind and my creative imagination. I wanted, with a passion, to tell the story of those four lovely, much photographed but historically neglected sisters…

Thomas Hildebrand Preston, 1888-1976: The British Diplomat who Tried to Save the Romanovs

Thomas Preston, the British Consul in Ekaterinburg in 1918, did his best to help the imprisoned Romanov family an in alerting the Allies to their perilous situation
but till now little has been written about his life and diplomatic career.

Mad Lord Adolphus, Lady Susan and Bertie’s Baby

Even Queen Victoria, who privately loved tittle-tattle but never admitted to it, could not resist being drawn into the saga of mad Lord Adolphus Vane-Tempest and his poor wife Susan…

George Bridgetower: The Black Violinist at the Court of the Prince of Wales

The Extraordinary life of George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, the violin prodigy who stunned Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, like so much of black history from the Victorian era and before, is even now only infrequently mentioned.

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