Looking to the past to share a future
“I should like to try…” These were the words of young Agatha Miller when she was told detective stories were too difficult to write. We know her now as Agatha Christie, Queen of Crime and creator of detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. I should like to try. I love these five words. They summed up my transition from buried-under-books student to owner/manager of a historical theatre company, and my eventual specialisation as a costume historian. I now run the History Wardrobe series of ... »