Talk:Gillian Tindall

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You don't explicitly note Tindall's being an FRSL, or being decorated with the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France) 2001 by the French government, or mention her prodigious freelance journalism since 1960 across all quality British newspapers. You need to run a spell-check on your text too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.155.200.241 (talk) 22:19, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

But at least we do manage to reproduce what sounds just like a publisher's blurb when we say "Gillian Tindall has constructed a moving and compelling portrait ..." Maybe some day someone will fix both kinds of problem? DBaK (talk) 22:35, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Yet more disillusion

Your heavy irony noted, DBaK but I've given up investing time in editing Wiki entries since its know-all geeks simply reject my changes out of hand if I so much as challenge their own ill-informed previous material. I've never come across so much self-interest and bias in a major reference work. And Wiki's definition of what counts as a legit ref source is insultingly blinkered (only books written by selfsame Wiki editors, it seems).

Oh dear. I'm sad to hear that. Please refer to the song "Don't Give Up" by Peter Gabriel with a rather nice contribution by Kate Bush. Thank you. DBaK (talk) 23:22, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

Dates

What are the dates in the bibliography meant to represent? I was surprised to see The Fields Beneath listed in an apparent chronological order as 2011. In the text it is 1977, which feels a lot more likely. DBaK (talk) 22:40, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

See also obits -

Gillian Tindall, 87, Dies; Author Who Probed the Layers of Places - The New York Times

Gillian Tindall, 87, Dies; Author Who Probed the Layers of Places A novelist and biographer, she was also a preservationist, and her meticulous investigations of houses, villages...

Gillian Tindall obituary: historian and novelist

Gillian Tindall obituary: historian and novelist The Times

Writer whose works traversed fiction, architecture and biography dies aged 87

I lived too long. By Gillian Tindall - The Oldie

I lived too long. By Gillian Tindall - The Oldie I lived too long. By Gillian Tindall — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roseberyxxx (talk • contribs) 11:53, 21 November 2025 (UTC)