Category: Contemporary history

• Looking back to the future

  If you have read any of my books, you will know I have a fascination with the recent past. My stories are all set during two eras: the Second World War years and the vibrant decade of the 1960s. Writing any fiction, whether about then or now, involves a certain amount of research. In fact,…

  Isabella Muir

  April 26, 2025

  Contemporary history, family life, politics, Post war Britain, postgraduate study, reading, research, sixties

  1960s, community, Contemporary history, modernity, research, social history

• Delving into the past

  Anyone who has read any of my stories will know I have a fascination with the past, specifically the more recent past. Writing my first series of Sussex Crime novellas I spent happy hours researching what life was like on the Home Front in England during the Second World War. Research for my novels took…

  Isabella Muir

  October 26, 2024

  Contemporary history, politics, Post war Britain, postgraduate study, reading, research, Second World War, sixties, social history

  books, Contemporary history, fiction, historical fiction, history, postgraduate study, The Great War, University of Birmingham, World War 1