Blog | Kristin Bundesen

The Ya-Ya Sisterhood

In a 'Century of Queens', how could there not be political women? Surely a queen wasn't the only woman in her kingdom interested in politics

My trip to Nottingham

She said, 'This is Dr. So&So's office. He doesn't admit he has a gender. This is Dr. Ellis's office. It's the largest in the building.

Two decades later

How Hilary Clinton and Mary of Guise sent me to the archives.

Then I found Dorothy Dunnett

I found Dorothy Dunnett when I was living in Paris. I had moved there on vague promises from a photographer. The #MeToo era it wasn't.

How I became an historian

How I became an historian. I met Karen in a community seminar titled "If Rousseau were a woman".

Adventures of an historian - in which she impersonates a political analyst

I am a bit aghast that I agreed to impersonate a political analyst for a lecture on Elizabeth I.