✨ I’m excited to share that my website is now live: https://t.co/axCKEwOq2c ✨️ It brings together my work as Historian, Author and Curator - from my writing and research to curatorial projects, speaking engagements and media contributions. 👉 Please do visit

"By the time I knew her, the first volume of her beauty was closed; but years afterwards she opened a second, when she suddenly decided to let hair, waist, complexion and everything go, and became in a day one of the most beautiful human beings I have seen." Churchill's mother,

"I had great anxiety and no means of relieving it; I had vehement convictions and small power to give effect to them... And then it was the Muse of Painting came to my rescue." - Winston Churchill, 'Painting as a Pastime' Photo: Churchill in his painting studio at @ChartwellNT

My Italian dog and I in the shade of the Italian Garden at @hevercastle. ☀️

"I cannot recommend [Churchill's Citadel] more highly. It's her first book and I cannot wait to read her next ten books because she is a phenomenal writer." Huge thanks to @anglotopia for featuring Churchill's Citadel in its 'Best British History Books' list.✌️📘

A superb evening at @WallaceMuseum for a special view of their Churchill Paintings exhibition, organised by the International Churchill Society.✌️🎨 Here's me enjoying his depiction of 'La Dragonnière, Cap Martin', a painting which famously counted Pablo Picasso among its fans.

Living my best 1990s life on my way to see #Boyzone in concert. 💃

It was my pleasure to contribute my essay - 'A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted': Painting Chartwell - to the exhibition catalogue for The Wallace Collection's superb 'Winston Churchill: The Painter' exhibition. To get your hands on a copy: https://t.co/L6iS7HcbHZ

The view of Winston Churchill's study @ChartwellNT from beyond-the-ropes. (...and yes I had taken my shoes off first.)

If you've not seen @WallaceMuseum's #Churchill show yet, why not join me there on 29 June for my talk on 'Churchill's Citadel'. Discover the role his home @ChartwellNT played in his fight against the Nazis *and* see this fab new display of his paintings. https://t.co/MqPYGS3KcZ

So looking forward to speaking at We Have Ways Fest this September. 🥳 Looking forward to seeing lots of you there, in addition to the legendary @James1940 & @almurray. ✌️ https://t.co/A0DgESMRdY

When it's 32°C in the UK and so an outing to an air museum requires holiday attire. ☀️🌡

Spending #MemorialDay at @I_W_M Duxford's #AmericanAirMuseum. 🇺🇸 It was truly moving to see its Roll of Honour display - a memorial to those American personnel who died while serving in, or flying from, Britain, between 1942 and 1945.

Godmother mode activated. 👶

The golden orfe pond at @ChartwellNT this morning.

Duty Manager @ChartwellNT today and am braced for a toasty one! 🥵 [Pictured below: The beautiful view from my office window]

What a triumph of an exhibition.👏 Huge well done to the curators of The Wallace Collection's 'Winston Churchill: The Painter'. It is pure paintacious joy, and it was a joy to write my essay - 'A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted': Painting Chartwell - for its catalogue.

I had the pleasure of speaking at @SulgraveManor (George Washington's ancestral home in the UK) today for a brilliant group of mostly 6th form and uni students, about Winston Churchill's enduring connection to the United States, as part of the #America250 commemorations.✌️🇺🇸