*As read on BBC Radio 4\'s Book of the Week*\'A genius for a certain kind of social history that, in shining a light on one small place, illuminates a huge amount\' Sunday TelegraphA toy train.
Tindall reflects on a lifetime\'s interest in historical recovery\' The Telegraph\'Tindall is a fine historian and writes with a wryness of everyday human foibles\' The Times.
Gillian Tindall, one of our most admired domestic history writers, examines seemingly humble objects to trace the personal and global memories stored within them, and re-animate the ghostly heartbeats of lost lives.\'Elegiac...
A tiny Pulse glass, inherited from her great-great-grandfather, which was used to time a patient\'s heartbeat before pocket watches...
A stack of letters. *As read on BBC Radio 4\'s Book of the Week*\'A genius for a certain kind of social history that, in shining a light on one small place, illuminates a huge amount\' Sunday TelegraphA toy train
