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Melanie Backe-Hansen is an historian, author and speaker. She specialises in social history of houses and streets and is the author of the acclaimed books ‘House Histories: The Secrets Behind Your Front Door’ and ‘Historic Streets and Squares: The Secrets on Your Doorstep’  What is an historian? This is rather a difficult question to answer, and I’m suddenly transported back into time (of …

Historic Streets and Squares: The Secrets on Your Doorstep By Melanie Backe-Hansen The History Press (Nov 2013) This is a book that makes you want to set out on a tour of England, not only to view some of the architectural and historical gems of streets of England, but also to reexamine the ones that you thought you already knew. …