National Archives

AI wrote letters that were admired. Some, like her travel letters, are lost. Some are in the British Library . Those to her father, preserved in the Castle Howard archives, have been published by the...

Both sisters were indefatigable researchers. They took as their motto Facts, not Opinions (though they were more willing to editorialise than the motto might suggest). They lobbied politicians, pulling every possible string to secure...

At one time, says scholar Samuel Schoenbaum , she applied for daily work, presumably as a char, at the Record Office, but was turned away as they had enough girls.