I am a historian, novelist, public speaker and walks guide inLondon, and my particular expertise is 19th and early 20th centurysocial history. I am a Londoner but also used to live close to Chathamuntil recently. So not surprisingly, I am a big Dickens fan! My threenovels are set in the East End slums of 1888, on the Titanic and inthe Suffragette movement 1912-14 and during the Spanish Flu 1918-19.