What was amazing seeing those clips (from the game) was seeing all the stuff that I'd read but obviously never seen because I'm not 140 years old. And thinking, yes, of course, that's what it looks like, stuff that I hadn't thought of. It was stuff the designers had thought of, and they got right.

Judith Flanders

Judith Flanders is a historian and author. She spent her childhood in Montreal, Canada, apart from a year in Israel in 1972, and then worked as an editor for various London publishers, which she has satirized in a crime novel, Writers' Block, retitled A Murder of Magpies. As an author, Flanders concentrates on the Victorian period. Her book, A Circle of Sisters followed the lives of four female siblings and The Invention of Murder investigated crime of the era. Flanders also writes as an arts critic, on books, dance and art. Her work has appeared in The Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, The Spectator and The Times Literary Supplement.

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