As well as a reviewer for Beau Monde Traveler, Gillian is a well-known writer and speaker and one of the UK’s foremost experts on the social history of tea drinking and afternoon tea. She has written about her travels for several media titles. She is the author of ‘Please pass the scones, a social history of English afternoon tea’, pub. 2022, and in 2010, she was honoured by the late Queen Elizabeth with an MBE for services to social history education. For more on Gillian, see our article on her as the UKs premier Afternoon Tea expert, and her own website https://worldofafternoontea.com/