Amy Helen Bell
@amyhelenbell.bsky.social
Historian of Modern Britain: WW2, murder, forensics, female criminals. Latest book- Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Wartime London (Yale, 2024). Likes cakes.
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"It’s the grubbiness that comes through: the smell of families — told to use no more than five inches of bathwater a week between them — crammed into shelters where a bucket served for a toilet."
On @amyhelenbell.bsky.social's UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS:
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
On @amyhelenbell.bsky.social's UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS:
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Under Cover of Darkness by Amy Helen Bell review — the dark side of wartime London
The capital during the Blitz wasn’t all heroic firefighters and whistling milkmen — thieves and even serial killers lurked in the shadows
www.thetimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"It’s the grubbiness that comes through: the smell of families — told to use no more than five inches of bathwater a week between them — crammed into shelters where a bucket served for a toilet."
On @amyhelenbell.bsky.social's UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS:
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
On @amyhelenbell.bsky.social's UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS:
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Thanks so much!
November 26, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Thanks so much!
Thank you! @yalebooks.bsky.social has been wonderful!
November 14, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Thank you! @yalebooks.bsky.social has been wonderful!