Lesley is undertaking a masters degree at the University of Birmingham, focussing on her special subject - the private lives of women in the 1580s.

She has uncovered previously forgotten and colourful 16th century methods of contraception and has lectured on her subject at the university’s Medical School.

Lesley is also the curator of Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire, the former prison-home of Mary Queen of Scots before her execution in 1587.

Lesley has experienced a number of unexplained phenomena, including a terrifying experience at a church in Cornwall.  As a ten year she suddenly saw the kneelers lifting and falling on their own.  "The rise and fall was coming up the nave towards me.  I was frozen with fear before running out of the door," she says.