Kit Whitfield's Blog

I'm sorry to have to announce that the publication date of In The Heart of Hidden Things has been moved from March to June 2022. This i...

   (Available for pre-order here .)   Well, I promised you a hiatus, and boy did I deliver. What happened there? Well, at the time I stopp...

...I'm afraid this blog is on pause. Apologies to anyone this disappoints; personal and family reasons have called for a complete change...

...and will be for a bit longer, I'm afraid. Because of two interrelated factors: 1. Personal reasons. 2. The next book I plan to do...

This blog is undergoing revision; a temporary archive of the Opening Line series can be found here .  Johann Friedrich Struensee was appo...

This blog is undergoing revision; a temporary archive of Opening Line posts can be found here .  Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in S...