RUTH HERMAN has a career in PR and lecturing at university level. Now retired, she enjoys writing to make history engaging and accessible to the general reader. Her first book,
The Incredibly Biased Beer Guide, won a Guild of British Beer Writers Bronze prize. Her most recent book was
Grub Street: The Origins of the British Press. She lives in Hertfordshire.
Hertfordshire is full of stories. The county's proximity to London attracts the great, the good and those less so: Hertfordshire was once home to saints such as St Alban, St Thomas More and the only English Pope, Nicholas Breakspear. Such virtuous figures pose a sharp contrast to...
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