Kit Whitfield's Blog

 As of today, this book is available to buy!  To get a hardback copy from a site that supports local bookstores, click here . To buy the Kin...

   (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...

This site is undergoing revision; a temporary archive of Opening Line posts can be found here . My name, in those days, was Susan Trinder...