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By Michael Williams     It could hardly be more be surreal. Here I am discussing the significance of the Lord’s Prayer, that most emblematic totem of the Christian liturgy, with the most powerful woman in British Judaism in the magnificent Victorian-Byzantine setting of the West London Synagogue at Marble Arch – church-like in almost […]

I’m giving two talks at Nottingham University this Saturday on the national press and investigative journalism. The debate about both is coming nicely to a head this week in the row about Culture Secretary Maria Miller’s expenses…

 Here’s an extract from my article in today’s Tablet magazine: It could hardly be more be surreal. Here I am discussing the significance of the Lord’s Prayer, that most emblematic totem of the Christian liturgy, with the most powerful woman in British Judaism in the magnificent Victorian-Byzantine setting of the West London Synagogue at Marble […]

A lovely review of the new edition of Steaming to Victory on Suzi Feay’s Book Bag. It’s one of the top online websites. Here’s what it says: ‘Soon after the end of the First World War, the British railways entered what is generally regarded as their golden age, with the heyday of the ‘Big Four’ […]

Coincidence or what? With the new updated edition of Steaming to Victory out in a few days, my local paper, the CNJ, rang me last night to ask advice about the origin of an unexploded bomb found not far from my home in Camden yesterday, closing busy Hatton Garden to traffic. I’ve written lots about […]

A super review of the new updated edition paperback edition of ‘Steaming to Victory’ in today’s Daily Express, which describes it as ‘Chuffing marvellous’. The reviewer says: ‘This highly readable book covers the essential but often overlooked role trains played in the success of the Home Front in the Second World War. Tales of child […]

Just returned from a Eurostar trip from London to Paris. I’m putting the train through its paces for a chapter in my next book following on from ‘Steaming to Victory’. Although the decor is a bit tired, the train performed faultlessly, delivering me to the City of Light on the loveliest sunny day of the […]

  Here’s an item from Sixth Sense – the newspaper of the British Forces in Germany – about the special Steaming to Victory train on June 6. I’m giving a talk on the day in Gloucester Cathedral: A special steam train commemorating the crucial role played by the British home and military railways supporting Operation […]