Sue Wilkes is an established expert on regional, local, and industrial history, and she is a well-known family historian. In addition to contributing many articles to history and family history magazines, including Who Do You Think You Are? and Family Tree, she is the author of Regency Spies; A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England; The Children History Forgot; Narrow Windows, Narrow Lives; Regency Cheshire; Tracing Your Canal Ancestors; Tracing Your Lancashire Ancestors; and Tracing Your Ancestors' Childhood, among other books.