Rachel Hewitt is a writer and Lecturer in Creative Writing at Newcastle University, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her first book, the best-selling Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordance Survey (2010), won the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction. She was awarded a Gladstone's Library Political Writing Residency for her second book, A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind (2017). Rachel is Dir...