Lesley Adkins

Visit www.adkinshistory.com for further details, newsletter and events. Lesley Adkins is a historian and archaeologist, author of numerous critically acclaimed non-fiction books on social and naval history, and also on archaeology and the ancient world. Her books are mostly written with her husband Roy Adkins, and their latest one is WHEN THERE WERE BIRDS: THE FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF OUR CONNECTIONS. Other books include GIBRALTAR: THE GREATEST SIEGE IN BRITISH HISTORY; JANE AUSTEN'S ENGLAND (called 'Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England' in the UK); JACK TAR: LIFE IN NELSON'S NAVY; THE WAR FOR ALL THE OCEANS; EMPIRES OF THE PLAIN; and THE KEYS OF EGYPT. They have been translated into several languages worldwide. She lives in England, near Exeter in Devon.