Author: Julie Summers

'It is as if I have been waiting for someone to ask me these questions for almost the whole of my life' From 1945, more than four million British s...

In 1917 a remarkable organisation came into being. Its brief was vastly ambitious: to commemorate the 1,100,00 men of the British Empire who lost t...

Boat races and regattas are mainstays of the British summer – but where did these races originate and how have they become so important a part of o...

'Magnificent ... Dressed for War works on many levels: as an evocation of an uncommon time; as a celebration of an uncommon woman; as pure, unalloy...

'Julie Summers has an amazing instinct for unearthing good stories and telling quotes.' Craig Brown, The Mail On Sunday 'This is an enjoyable book,...