Rachel Trethewey

Nov 7, 2024 | thehistorypress.co.uk | Rachel Trethewey |Kay Caball |Anne Strathie |Robert Sellers

Skip to main content Guns, Drugs and Murder in the Wild, Wild East Hardback Ebook History, Society & Culture, True Crime Publication date: 07/11/2024 ISBN: 9781803995472 Illustrations: 28 History, Society & Culture, True Crime Publication date: 07/11/2024 ISBN: 9781803995489 Pages: 256 Illustrations: 28 Welcome to a world of Adidas, Kalashnikovs, and organised crime. After the fall of communism, the most dangerous Mafia you’ve never heard of ran Poland as their own private playground and...

Oct 7, 2023 | dailymail.co.uk | Rachel Trethewey

Intimate new photographic portraits of Edward VIII as a young man are up for auction. Taken when he was the 25-year-old Prince of Wales in 1919, they are likely to have been a gift for his married lover of the time Freda Dudley Ward - whose 15-year affair with Edward ended only when she refused to leave her husband. Edward would end up marrying another married woman, Wallis Simpson, and abdicate the throne in the process.

Sep 25, 2023 | express.co.uk | Rachel Trethewey

Too often female authors are defined solely by their relationships with the men in their lives, lovers and husbands foremost. But how about the women who feature most prominently in their stories? Visiting Tate St Ives in 2018, I was taken aback by a quotation from Virginia Woolf: “We think back through our mothers if we are women.”Next to it was a mesmerising photograph of Virginia’s mother Julia Stephen and both quote and image resonated powerfully.