Matilda is a Historian at the National Army Museum in London, specialising in the Napoleonic period.


An essay on ECR life:
Talking to spiders

“Last summer I spent two weeks in quarantine in a sunlit, rundown half of a cottage, hidden in a dip below a ridge of hills, with about fifty spiders for company.”

Selected as part of the CRASSH Cambridge 20th Anniversary Publication, 'Global Conversations: A collection of essays, short fiction, and poetry.'