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Joely Richardson narrates the audiobook of The Woman Who Saved the Children

What a laugh narrating the preface to The Woman Who Saved the Children before Joely Richardson got stuck in with the main recording!

9 October 2019

Andante Travel / Historical Trips

Clare leads her fourth historical trip. Follow in the footsteps on SOE agents Krystyna Skarbek/Christine Granville, Noor Inayat Khan, Eileen Nearne, Lilian Rolfe and Pearl Witherington in London, Paris and rural France.

20 September 2019

Krystyna Skarbek aka Christine Granville, The Spy Who Loved, gets one step closer to receiving an English Heritage Blue Plaque after Clare’s campaign is supported by the Sunday Times.

18 August 2019

History on Newsnight with Kirsty Wark

As Russia asks the west to reconsider how Second World War history is remembered, I talk about how history is always being re-presented and each nation has its own version of the past to tell.

16 June 2019

D-Day 75 years on commemorations

Commentating with Hugh Edwards at the D-Day 75 commemorations for the BBC

5 June 2019

Bronze bust of Eglantyne Jebb unveiled at the Royal Albert Hall

To mark the centenary of Save the Children, I was delighted to help unveil a new bronze bust of Eglantyne Jebb, founder of the charity and subject of The Woman Who Saved the Children, at the Royal Albert Hall. It was sculpted by Ian Wolter, who donated his time, and the cost of the bronze […]

22 May 2019

Helena Bonham Carter and Joely Richardson star in The Woman Who Saved the Children…

Save the Children’s centenary was marked with a gala performance of a scene from Eglantyne’s life, scripted by Charlotte Bogard Macleod from my book, and performed at London’s magnificent Roundhouse Theatre.

8 May 2019

Ellesmere remembers Eglantyne Jebb

Eglantyne Jebb’s hometown, beautiful Ellesmere in Shropshire, has honoured her with new town signs…

2 May 2019

Lecturing the House of Lords!

Wonderful to be invited to talk about Krystyna Skarbek aka Christine Granville, the first woman to serve Britain as a special agent in the Second World War, at the House of Lords. The Lords and Commons’ libraries book took copies of my biography of her, The Spy Who Loved.

30 April 2019

ATA pilot ‘Spitfire Mary’ Ellis dies

During the Second World War Mary Ellis ferried 700 Spitfires, and many heavy bombers, between factory and airfield, always without comms of weapons and sometimes in skies that invaded by the Luftwaffe. I was lucky to meet her, but very sad to have to report her death today for Sky News.

24 July 2018